Lead and antimony are both sweet
Delicious rocks
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jambudz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Uranium is … spicy.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And orpiment (arsenic sulfide) tastes like garlic!
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
That’s the sulphur. I bet Na2S tastes like MSG on asteroids.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
While it may or may not meet your contextual definition of ‘rock’,… lead tastes somewhat sweet, apparently.
The Romans boiled grape juice in lead pots to produce a kind of syrup that was used to sweeten wine.
Lead is uh, a neurotoxin and likely carcinogen, so probably don’t lick the sweet rocks too much.
According to:
galleries.com/minerals/property/taste.htm
… apparently borax tastes sweet and… alkaline?
Chalcantite is described as ‘sweet metalic and slightly poisonous.’
Melanterite is apparently ‘sweet, astringent and metallic.’
django@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethoven’s deafness
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok boomer
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay fetus and this wasn’t a boomer movie.
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
This was a millennial film. Boomers were parents when this film aired… Hell, so was a good portion of Gen X.
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I’m not a geologist so my explanation might not be 100% correct, but a mineral is a bunch of molecules set up in a crystalline pattern, so ice is a mineral form of water. Or water is the lava of ice, ice being technically a rock.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Like magma but gets hard at 0°C instead of 1000+.
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Asbestos can be used by kids as chewing gum:
Wittenoom’s roads were paved with asbestos tailings from the nearby mines and workers went home covered in a layer of deadly dust.
Children played in the lethal mineral, and some even stuffed it in their mouths as a substitute for chewing gum.
– www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-15/…/101433166FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Average day of a geologist
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Those fuckers will lick anything.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yea, they’re quite Randy I hear
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Bro never smoked crack.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
MSG seems to be the even better rock
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Only lead acetate. Which makes me wonder about acetate of other have metals. Is uranium acetate even better?
xkbx@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
our body needs so many minerals so yes
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 6 days ago
to this I say:
go to sleep bro you’ve probably had a long day
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hell yeah, brother, fight the system! Don’t let Big Geology tell you want to do! Eat those rocks!
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Orpiment looks citrus-flavored, but when you lick it, it’s actually garlic-flavoured! These secrets have been hidden from us!
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And on this day, a geologist was born
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The other first-column chloride salts are mostly edible at some level. Potassium chloride is used in some low-sodium foods, I think. I saw a couple Aussies on YouTube once going down the column and putting them all on fries. Not sure if I’d be able to find it again though, it was pretty old
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
+1 for Explosions & Fire and Extractions & Ire. This guy puts out videos where he’s synthesizing various explosives or just extracting weird compounds from things, all laced with a blend of Aussie humor and shitposting. Highly recommend
drre@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
There were arsenic in Styria
From the English Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trioxide?wprov=sfla…
In Austria, there lived the so-called “arsenic eaters of Styria”, who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. Arsenic is thought to enable strenuous work at high altitudes, e.g. in the Alps."
(The German Wikipedia has a whole article on this: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenikesser?wprov=sfla1)
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lithium
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eat this rock every day to make the visions stop.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well atleast you probably won‘t get Alzheimer‘s if you eat lithium every day. But that might be attributed to the life-ending attributes of lithium poisoning
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 “for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.”
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re minerals, Marie!
unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Trona
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Try cinnabar
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just stick with rock candy and salt. Minerals like cinnabar and orpiment have a short enjoyment period.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
But orpiment tastes like garlic!
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Full circle and back to the Paleolithic!
Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For reference:
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SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If we’re talking about licking it in it’s solid state, I don’t think solid hydrogen or helium would be in a lickable state.
ESPECIALLY solid helium, which needs to be at a temperature LESS than 3 Kelvin AND at 26 times atmospheric pressure. Not “OR”, AND
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You don’t need to sell it to me, I wanted to try before.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
A good start but Na and Cl are both individually as you really shouldn’t, put them together and you have tasty rocks.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Das Lecken der elementaren Salzbildner ist strengstens verboten.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
On the other hand, Hg is actually safe to lick. It’s a lot more noble than, for example, silver, so acids and bases won’t attack it. Lots of people even have it stored in their teeth, permanently.
ttyybb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Must be a reason something’s yellow and not red, so should be fine
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Pure mercury is pretty safe, actually.
youtube.com/watch?v=DNpdMz0Cfv0&t=124
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
To lick?
Also I’ve heard that lead is sweet, but will never lick the solder even though thinking about it is making me really wonder.