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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.
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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=124
To 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.
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noticeably
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Lead and antimony are both sweet
Uranium is ... spicy.
I know antimoney is sweet. That's why I'm broke.
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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.'
Lead doesn't taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
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Yummy
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
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.
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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.
Bro never smoked crack.
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
our body needs so many minerals so yes
MSG seems to be the even better rock
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
Only lead acetate. Which makes me wonder about acetate of other heavy metals. Is uranium acetate even better?
The other first-column chloride salts are mostly edible at some level. Potassium chloride is used in some low-sodium foods, I think. I saw a couple Aussies on YouTube once going down the column and putting them all on fries. Not sure if I'd be able to find it again though, it was pretty old
Hell yeah, brother, fight the system! Don't let Big Geology tell you want to do! Eat those rocks!
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And on this day, a geologist was born
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
There were arsenic eaters in Styria
From the English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trioxide?wprov=sfla1
In Austria, there lived the so-called "arsenic eaters of Styria", who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. Arsenic is thought to enable strenuous work at high altitudes, e.g. in the Alps."
(The German Wikipedia has a whole article on this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenikesser?wprov=sfla1)
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 "for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks."
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