• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    1 day 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!!

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        22 hours ago

        Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.

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

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          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”

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

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            22 hours 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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                idk man. the tins I’m drinking out of don’t really ‘taste metallic’, whereas when I got shot up with radioactive elements, I definitely described it as “having a metallic taste in my mouth”.

                (Oh and the answer is ‘radiology’ — shooting people up with radioactive elements is literally everyday stuff. There’s a whole branch of medicine about it; “nuclear medicine.”)

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                    6 hours ago

                    I know you deleted the reply, but I could still see it on Sync in my notifications.

                    I know tins have plastic liners, but like, normal forks and knives don’t taste metallic. Something something interaction with the metal. I think coins wouldn’t smell metallic if you wash them properly and then don’t touch them with bare skin.

                    Coins don’t inherently smell; the “metallic” odor associated with them is actually a result of a chemical reaction between skin oils and the metal, particularly iron, when touched. This reaction breaks down skin lipids, producing volatile organic compounds like 1-octen-3-one, which is what our noses detect

                    But I’m sure that’s not what’s happening when you’re having a radioactive dye injected. It’s a different metallic sensation.

                    And yes, my taste buds are in my mouth. The radioactive dye is injected into my circulatory system, which also circulates the blood in my mouth, which has my tastebuds.

                    I think some comedian has a bit sort of related? Holup I’ll look for it,

                    Can’t find it. I was thinking maybe Jim Jefferies, or John Mulaney, then maybe Ali Siddiq or Theo Von. Nah. Just can’t recall. Anyway a standup comedian is impressed by some really crusty junkie comments on the quality of the drugs they inject, because they can taste the fillers through.

                    The point being it’s surprising how you can taste things in your blood.

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        24 hours ago

        The food colouring they add to the orange juice (from those pods) makes it actually taste better!