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[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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"

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or the fact that it’s, y’know, a metal

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.")

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I can still huff them though, right? How else will I know when my reaction is done?

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's coincidentally when we started getting radiation poisoning. Correlation? Causation? The younger generation is so weak smh.