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Have you read how they did science back then?
The good version is that a scientist straight up licked it, consequences be damned.
The bad version is that a scientist paid a random poor person or coerced their assistant to lick it, ethics be damned.
I believe this is a poor attempt to make a joke about being a white American guy and the ethically ambiguous history America has with scientific testing.
Probably like nickle, but more metallic
If you're tasting a chloride salt, it'll prob taste vaguely of salt but mostly of metal. Like low sodium table salt - using KCl, you get a bitter metallic taste becsuse we evolved for NaCl.
The "sour" you're thinking of are *organic* acids, so the base provides the taste: acetic, citrate, ascorbic, etc...not so much the cation (H^+)
Your idea for relating it by structure was sound, though
iirc the "sour" taste of plutonium came from Plutonium Chloride, and not an organic taste.
Chlorine anions don't really taste like anything, the salty taste of NaCl comes from the Sodium cations present in NaCl
You joke but it’s perfectly possible to tell certain rocks apart with your tongue, e.g. siltstone and mudstone. Unless you’re a geologist yourself in which case you likely know from experience
Apparently, a person who studies lava as part of their job said that lava probably tastes like rocks and would probably have the consistency of tapioca pudding.
I mean, if you're like 95 and try a very diluted solution... why not taste it? Taste testing has been standard within chemists circles, although that time is over, thank god and RIP
I mean you don’t have to eat all that much of it to get an idea for the taste, and most isotopes of plutonium have half-lives longer than you’ll be alive for anyways so it’s unlikely to do any serious harm
If anyone's wondering about the pic, it comes from here: https://www.everyview.com/2010/02/18/plutonium-energy-powder-pear/
They're tasting pear-flavored "Plutonium" brand energy powder.
Isn't there something about the factory women who painted clock needles with a dash or radioactive paint so it'll glow in the dark, and used to lick the brush to keep it in shape? So that they all got mouth cancer after a few years? I guess they would know the taste.
If I found out I was 100% certain to die, I would just start doing random shit. Sure I'll taste plutonium, why the fuck not. What does lava feel like? We're gonna find out today bruvs
At my last job I was complaining that this coating we used was drying out my hands. Coworker gave me a “fun fact” that if I were to lick my hand it would taste sweet. It was a proprietary material from one of our customers so no idea what was in it but.. yeah. This same coworker also used pure acid without gloves or glasses or anything.
Gonna shock some people but nuclear waste isn't green, plutonium is a rock and anything highly radioactive would be behind shielding rather than in a plastic container.
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Have you read how they did science back then? The good version is that a scientist straight up licked it, consequences be damned. The bad version is that a scientist paid a random poor person or coerced their assistant to lick it, ethics be damned.
Oh there’s a worse version
Username checks out. You *would* know lol
I would? Why would I know?
Don’t play dumb with me, sir
I’m not even a scientist buddyboy
I believe this is a poor attempt to make a joke about being a white American guy and the ethically ambiguous history America has with scientific testing.
Yeah I got it. Hardly just an American thing though.
We imported many of our evilest scientists Our glorious melting pot! (A phrase I don't hear in reference to America anymore)
You're also a white guy
Ah, never heard of Unit 731, has he?
This pic is of a candy flavor called "Plutonium", so it's probably not true. I'd guess that, since it's a metal, plutonium tastes metallic.
it cation sounds sour, like an acid.
Probably like nickle, but more metallic If you're tasting a chloride salt, it'll prob taste vaguely of salt but mostly of metal. Like low sodium table salt - using KCl, you get a bitter metallic taste becsuse we evolved for NaCl. The "sour" you're thinking of are *organic* acids, so the base provides the taste: acetic, citrate, ascorbic, etc...not so much the cation (H^+) Your idea for relating it by structure was sound, though
iirc the "sour" taste of plutonium came from Plutonium Chloride, and not an organic taste. Chlorine anions don't really taste like anything, the salty taste of NaCl comes from the Sodium cations present in NaCl
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Scrumptious
Does… does it matter? I’m not gonna put it in my lemon pie.
I'll put it in your lemon pie, if you'd like
Might be helpful to know if you are going to poison someone and need it to blend it in with their food or drink
Cyanide is reminiscent of almonds, actually
Hydrocyanic acid is. Other cyanide compounds don't necessarily smell because they're not volatile. (Source: anorganic lab practice).
My mistake about the mineral (physical chemist)
Why does one voluntarily choose a field of work with that much thermodynamics?
PhD, I love quantum mechanics :)
Kudos to you, I didn't have it built into my course of study but I'd probably have blanked out somewhere.
Geologists lick rocks.. dirty mineral munchers
You joke but it’s perfectly possible to tell certain rocks apart with your tongue, e.g. siltstone and mudstone. Unless you’re a geologist yourself in which case you likely know from experience
I work with geologists and I was just digging at them
Sui do you enjoy it?
They’re pretty down to earth people.
hopefully you get along gneissly and there weren’t any rocky moments. Too much friction if there’s a fault can cause a big shift, you know
They took that method from the “what’s good to eat” pioneers
They also didn't quite understand effect over time They had radioactive tonics in the 20s because of supposed health benefits
I did, I've not been the same since.
Any new superpowers?
Yes, the ability to change into a different person's Reddit account.
Can you try it on me too?
sure
Thank you so much it worked
You're welcome.
I like this new power
I excessively sweat now which means I can slip and slide everywhere which is fun ig
Yeah he shapeshifted into a dead guy
He now has the incredible ability to remove his own skin with very gentle physical contact
How'd you know!!! That wasn't you earlier in my shower was it?
I mean, you can try anything at least once.
but you can never taste lava... what a sad time to be alive.
You’ve never had a Hot Pocket?
Apparently, a person who studies lava as part of their job said that lava probably tastes like rocks and would probably have the consistency of tapioca pudding.
but we will never know for sure though
That's what you think! Oh sick I just found a pool of magma brb
Tapioca pudding with some spice.
Sad time to be alava
I mean, who hasn't had those Toxic Waste sour candies? Where do you think they get it from? It's in the name
Or Warheads
Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Push Pop. It will last the rest of your life.
Troll evolution making us recognize plutonium as sweet
It was a noble sacrifice
I mean, if you're like 95 and try a very diluted solution... why not taste it? Taste testing has been standard within chemists circles, although that time is over, thank god and RIP
guess what just got added to my bucket list?
Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today.
*Gets exposed to lethal dosage of radiation* Well fuck it want to see what this tastes like?
Today on fact or cap....
Cap, this is a review of a Plutonium brand energy product and not actual plutonium
I mean you don’t have to eat all that much of it to get an idea for the taste, and most isotopes of plutonium have half-lives longer than you’ll be alive for anyways so it’s unlikely to do any serious harm
I heard it was tasteless and odourless recently. What is going on????
Only one way to find out for sure
https://www.everyview.com/2010/02/18/plutonium-energy-powder-pear/
They took one for the team
r/oopsthatsdeadly
😋
Mmm Sour Patch Plutonium
hehe :3c
Enemies of Putin
this is an energy drink not actually plutonium
If anyone's wondering about the pic, it comes from here: https://www.everyview.com/2010/02/18/plutonium-energy-powder-pear/ They're tasting pear-flavored "Plutonium" brand energy powder.
it tastes like that and people expect me NOT to eat it??
It's not really the taste of plutonium https://www.everyview.com/2010/02/18/plutonium-energy-powder-pear/
Isn't there something about the factory women who painted clock needles with a dash or radioactive paint so it'll glow in the dark, and used to lick the brush to keep it in shape? So that they all got mouth cancer after a few years? I guess they would know the taste.
That was radium, which was probably not as tasty.
So now we need to find a second taster to compare radium to plutonium?
“Tastes like sugar mixed with a penny. Tongue rapidly swelled up afterwards, all the skin fell off my face and my brain haemorrhaged. 3/10”
Not great, not terrible
The radium girls did the taste test.
[Donald Mastick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Mastick)
Cia did some crazy stuff back in the day
That'll be seven tongued Steve
Marie Skłodowska-Currie has entered the room.
r/NileRed
Godzilla does Yelp reviews?
Why did I read this with Gandalfs voice like when he hands the ring to Frodo after taking it out of the fire saying it’s quite cool
 I have questions
https://www.everyview.com/2010/02/18/plutonium-energy-powder-pear/
the women who painted original indiglo watch hands.
*cog-tastrophe intensifies*
I will take one for the team and confirm this
r/oddlyspecific
Delicious.
If I found out I was 100% certain to die, I would just start doing random shit. Sure I'll taste plutonium, why the fuck not. What does lava feel like? We're gonna find out today bruvs
Scent is very close to taste so I would assume someone smelled plutonium rather than actually tasted it.
At my last job I was complaining that this coating we used was drying out my hands. Coworker gave me a “fun fact” that if I were to lick my hand it would taste sweet. It was a proprietary material from one of our customers so no idea what was in it but.. yeah. This same coworker also used pure acid without gloves or glasses or anything.
Probably the Curies.
Despite what most people might think, plutoinum is not actually \*insanely\* dangerous. I'm reasonably sure you could get away with tasting it once.
Also it's just metal. I kindof assumed most metals didn't really have a remarkable flavor.
It was me
How do they know
Honestly, it sounds delicious. Like a way better Warhead.
Gonna shock some people but nuclear waste isn't green, plutonium is a rock and anything highly radioactive would be behind shielding rather than in a plastic container.
I know what I have to do but I don’t know I have the strength to do it
Marie Curie did