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.
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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 🥰
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 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.’
to this I say:
go to sleep bro you’ve probably had a long day
Yummy
Lead and antimony are both sweet
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
Uranium is … spicy.
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.
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
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
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
Average day of a geologist
Those fuckers will lick anything.
Except me :(
That’s on you then! 🙃
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!
Bro never smoked crack.
