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TIL that a gram of uranium contains 20 million kcals so if you ate just one gram of uranium you would have enough calories for the rest of your life. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by Greg@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You are confusing facts with measurements of facts. Uranium has a lot of chemical energy, just like food. Yes it's different and not edible, but this is a flaw in the human body, don't blame uranium for it

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Uranium has nuclear energy.

But if we are gonna count that when discussing food, then every atom has a shitton of energy.

Uranium just happens to be easy to split, hence we can actually use the nuclear energy.

But if you could split the atoms of bread, that's gona release unimagineable amounts of energy, too.