Re: Is element 123 edible ? ? ?

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_sirius.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:00:13 GMT

In sci.physics, Mark J Winter
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 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... :-) 

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