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[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Forbidden gum drop

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It'll kill ya in loads of inventive and horrible ways, but sure, you can give it a try!

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Please reconsider

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

In order to lick something at the very least it needs to be liquid, or better yet, solid.

Trying to kick hydrogen, with this in mind, will be the last lick you ever do in your life

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Wish we had this in chemistry

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Wtf, no, you should not lick boron, fucking ever. Go lick a piece of lead, it's better for your health

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

please reconsider again, some of them are tasty

from cody's lab

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah. That looks like something Codyslab will do...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

According to your table, it's not as bad as that, just not a good idea. E: Wait, missread that as thorium.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

The fact that Thorium and Uranium are just "probably not a good idea" makes me think that the scale is based on licking like an ore that contains them rather than the pure element

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I’m pretty sure I could get away with licking my uranium ore sample. Not going to test it apropos of nothing though.

A lot of those trans-uranium (and astatine) aren’t going to exist in lick-able quantities anyway.

[-] [email protected] 213 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, you can heat any old rock & make it look like that ... what I'm saying is that every rock, when heated to 500+°C, will gain delicious orange flavour, but scientists don't want you to know that!!

[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago

I wanna taste that blue Cherenkov tang

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

...blue raspberry gatorade...

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago

Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.

What I'm saying is people have tasted these things.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

I think it was when we got to toxic metals and radioactive elements that chemists where forced to stop tasting their discoveries.

I hope it went: Safety person: Hey! Stop tasting any elements or new molecules. It's been getting people severely sick or killed!

Chemist: "Ugh, fine, but ima bitch about it the whole time"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's coincidentally when we started getting radiation poisoning. Correlation? Causation? The younger generation is so weak smh.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I believe the guy who tasted plutonium did so accidentally when the powder got in his mouth. The metallic taste probably has something to do with how radioactive it is.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I can still huff them though, right? How else will I know when my reaction is done?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

What about butt-chugging them?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Demon core has entered the chat?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Demon buttplug

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I wanted to say the same - that blue color reminds me of blueberry with some mint for freshness!

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago

The highest calorie last meal

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Happy cake day!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Technically, this is processed cake. Yellow cake that is.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

they got cake day on lemmy too?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yep, my client(voyager) showed a cake next to their username.

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[-] [email protected] 162 points 2 days ago

"From a purely chemical standpoint, (plutonium) is about as poisonous as lead and other heavy metals. Not surprisingly, it has a metallic taste."

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Given that lead acetate is sweet, would plutonium acetate do the same?

anyone wants to help me set up a charity where we give "last meals" to terminal patients using toxic ingredients just for them to describe how they taste?

[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago

I was about to say that in the 40s and 50s someone ~~probably~~ taste it.

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[-] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago

Fun fact: a gram of plutonium contains about 20 billion calories. Yum.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not dietal calories.

The calorie numbers we assign to food, measure how much energy our body extracts from them when eaten.

In this context, plutonium is closer to 0

If we instead want to measure the actual total physical energy content of materia, we would turn to E=mc^2, telling us that a gram of anything has about 20 million kcal, no matter if its plutonium or diet coke. which is a slightly less useful value on food labels :D

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

This is actually an issue with food calories as well. Wood shavings give a high reading in a bomb calorimeter but you can't process them into energy. Same with lots of fiber. And ethanol, in some cases.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Technically it measures how much you can heat up a known volume of water if you burn the food. We have no way of measuring how much of that energy released by combustion actually gets absorbed and translated to ATP in the body, but it’s the best estimation we have of the relative energy content of foods.

There’s some carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that our bodies don’t seem to convert to energy (or only partially convert) but still technically contain “calories” because they’re combustible. Sugar alcohols, fiber, etc.

Plutonium doesn’t combust, but it would heat up water in a calorimeter. Really the test method’s applicability kind of falls apart when you start testing undigestible materials.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Plutonium actually does combust^1^. Even worse, it's pyrophoric^2^. I couldn't easily find kcal/g though.

^1^ Whoopie
^2^ Not a great source

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did a little digging. The heat of decay (so plutonium 238 just sitting around, not burning) is about .48 kcal/hr per gram. So if we were able to convert that energy to ATP like we do carbohydrates, eating about 300g of plutonium would be like eating a twinkie (150kcal) every hour. In about 88 years the energy output of that plutonium would have reduced to about a half-twinkie per hour.

Assuming you need 2000 kcal per day to maintain weight, that’s only 83 kcal per hour needed. So, if you could survive eating it and actually utilize the energy generated, you’d be set for life on food after eating less than 300g. We’d have to come up with a dosing schedule or you’d have to work out pretty hard as a young person to keep from getting fat.

The heat of combustion for plutonium based on a very cursory search (take it with a grain of salt) is about 1 kcal/g. So assuming your body could oxidize it, you’d get a one-time burst of about 2 twinkies worth of energy immediately upon eating that 300g.

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[-] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago

And it goes straight to my hips. By which I mean the bone marrow in my pelvis.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

This is a commonly quoted fun fact that is not really true. There are 2 different definitions of calorie. One means the absolute amount of energy in an object, the other means the bioavailable amount of energy that a human can extract from it using their digestive system.

So every physical object that exists has some amount of potential energy contained within it which we can express in calories, but that doesn't mean it has any bioavailable calories. For example glass has some significant amount of energy contained within it, but it has 0 bioavailable calories.

This "fun fact" mixes up the two definitions, making the statement meaningless.

(Nothing against you OP, this is a commonly repeated falsehood)

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago

If you eat just one bite you'll never have to eat again for the rest of your life!

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Equivalent-level of fun fact: 1 gram of hay contains that much calories too!

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We need a cosmological law dictating harmful to humans = boring-looking. I mean, it isn't just plutonium, look at uranium yellowcake! It's lemon flavouring!