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.
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
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.
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
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!
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."
Well atleast you probably wonβt get Alzheimerβs if you eat lithium every day. But that might be attributed to the life-ending attributes of lithium poisoning
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
You don't need to sell it to me, I wanted to try before.
"Go for it you seductive tortoise; find that Helium rock and lick it." is a strange sentence I never wanted to think of, but here we are
A good start but Na and Cl are both individually as you really shouldn't, put them together and you have tasty rocks.
Das Lecken der elementaren Salzbildner ist strengstens verboten.
wir sprechen viele idioma danke
That's not very nice. Translations in 2025 are trivial.
The guy probably mistook them for a Balrog of Morgoth, easy mistake to make.
Hey, es gefΓ€llt mir hier und ich drΓΌcke meine Rosette in dein Gesicht π₯°
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.
Aren't the teeth more of a risk to waterways during dental work than the owner of the teeth?
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=124
To lick?
Also Iβve heard that lead is sweet, but will never lick the solder even though thinking about it is making me really wonder.
If youβre an adult in no danger of pregnancy and not breastfeeding, licking the solder wire once wonβt hurt you noticeably.
But if youβre worried that youβll like the taste and might seek it out again, thatβs a possibility.
Careful, first you think you will just try 1 spool and the next think you know you are voting for Trump.
Iβm horsing the 2 spools of 60/40 I bought at RadioShack. RoHS be damned.
π«
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. Whatβs the easiest way to crimp a little weight on a line when youβre tying a lure? The Mark 1 tooth.
Lead and antimony are both sweet
Uranium is ... spicy.
I know antimoney is sweet. That's why I'm broke.
And orpiment (arsenic sulfide) tastes like garlic!
That's the sulphur. I bet Na2S tastes like MSG on asteroids.
I'd bet that the high solubility would make it taste closer to burning plastic, with how much sulfur is in it and actively dissolving on your tongue.
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.'
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
Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethovenβs deafness
Yummy
Ok boomer
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
Woosh
Okay fetus and this wasn't a boomer movie.
This was a millennial film. Boomers were parents when this film aired.. Hell, so was a good portion of Gen X.
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that's at least two tasty rocks
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.
That part tracks, nice!
Is it tasty, though?
You could freeze juice
Like lava but gets hard at 0Β°C instead of 1000+.
Average day of a geologist
Those fuckers will lick anything.
Except me :(
You aren't Randy?
Thatβs on you then! π
That just means that you aren't a fossil (yet). Give it a century or two.
Yea, they're quite Randy I hear
Asbestos can be used by kids as chewing gum:
Bro never smoked crack.
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-Food_Powder
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?
our body needs so many minerals so yes
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48
+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
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!
And on this day, a geologist was born
Try Uranium
MMmm spicy mac&cheese
There were arsenic eaters in Styria
From the English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trioxide?wprov=sfla1
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: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenikesser?wprov=sfla1)
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
Lithium
Eat this rock every day to make the visions stop.
Well atleast you probably wonβt get Alzheimerβs if you eat lithium every day. But that might be attributed to the life-ending attributes of lithium poisoning
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 "for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks."
Trona
They're minerals, Marie!
Try cinnabar
Just stick with rock candy and salt. Minerals like cinnabar and orpiment have a short enjoyment period.
But orpiment tastes like garlic!
Full circle and back to the Paleolithic!
to this I say:
go to sleep bro you've probably had a long day
Just drink lava
https://youtu.be/m7KXCpEpyL8
seems like some kind of reasonable behavior in some other country