• SippyCup@feddit.nl
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    15 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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      15 hours ago

      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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        14 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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            12 hours ago

            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.”)