Try cinnabar
Full circle and back to the Paleolithic!
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!
Ok boomer
This was a millennial film. Boomers were parents when this film aired… Hell, so was a good portion of Gen X.
Okay fetus and this wasn’t a boomer movie.
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
Woosh
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.
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
Like lava but gets hard at 0°C instead of 1000+.
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
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.
This isn’t ich_iel. Go back to the shadows from whence you came.
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 gefällt mir hier und ich drücke meine Rosette in dein Gesicht 🥰
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=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.
noticeably
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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.
Bro never smoked crack.
Lead and antimony are both sweet
And orpiment (arsenic sulfide) tastes like garlic!
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
Uranium is … spicy.
Yummy
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 “for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.”
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
