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Article #14661Re: Is element 123 edible ? ? ?
From: The Ghost In The Machine
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:00
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:00
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In sci.physics, Mark J Winter <nospam@nospam.com> wrote on Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:01:05 -0500 <2tu72rF239ohjU1@uni-berlin.de>: > > "Karl-Hugo Weesberg" <netspider4@lycos.com> wrote in message > news:7666ed5f.0410222002.1603342a@posting.google.com... >> I heard that the elements 110-118 don't taste that good, but elements >> 119-127 should be quite tasty, especially with mustard. >> >> Is that true or bogus? > > Actually you can't taste them at all. There is insufficient amount of them > to react with your taste buds. > You can sit at CERN with your mouth open at the end of the accelerator and > you should get a few, but it is a vacuum so it may be tricky. Also you > would have a proton stream go through your head for about 1/2 hour. I am > sure several pHs+doctors would become famous writing about you and what > happened to you. > Assuming there's a "you" left at the end of this procedure, although the primary danger I see is from radiation poisoning... :-) However, I for one would think that, were one to actually get enough to taste, that it would taste a bit like praseodynium or palladium. But I have no idea what either taste like... :-) -- #191, ewill3@earthlink.net It's still legal to go .sigless.
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