For reference:
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
A good start but Na and Cl are both individually as you really shouldn’t, put them together and you have tasty rocks.
Must be a reason something’s yellow and not red, so should be fine
Pure mercury is pretty safe, actually.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DNpdMz0Cfv0&t=124To 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.
If you’re an adult in no danger of pregnancy and not breastfeeding, licking the solder wire once won’t hurt you noticeably.
But if you’re worried that you’ll like the taste and might seek it out again, that’s a possibility.
Careful, first you think you will just try 1 spool and the next think you know you are voting for Trump.
I’m horsing the 2 spools of 60/40 I bought at RadioShack. RoHS be damned.
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while this is most likely true, you don’t really know what other sources of lead you come into contact with and it is probably a bad idea to add to the list deliberately
Weights for fishing (lines) are usually made of lead - at least in my youth they were
Yup. What’s the easiest way to crimp a little weight on a line when you’re tying a lure? The Mark 1 tooth.
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.
Yummy
Hell yeah, brother, fight the system! Don’t let Big Geology tell you want to do! Eat those rocks!
Orpiment looks citrus-flavored, but when you lick it, it’s actually garlic-flavoured! These secrets have been hidden from us! Add crushed orpiment to your dishes instead of garlic!
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:
https://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.’
Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethoven’s deafness
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
Try cinnabar
MSG seems to be the even better rock
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
Only lead acetate. Which makes me wonder about acetate of other heavy metals. Is uranium acetate even better?
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
+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
And on this day, a geologist was born
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
