It's the first ingredient of Nuka-Cola
this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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Uranium fever has done and got me down
Uranium fever, it's spreading all around!
With a Geiger counter in my hand!
I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land
Uranium fever has done and got me down.
Thirsty for uranium?
What would this taste like?
Looks like someone tried:
Uranyl salts are toxic and can cause severe chronic kidney disease and acute tubular necrosis. Target organs include the kidneys, liver, lungs and brain. Uranyl ion accumulation in tissues including gonocytes produces congenital disorders, and in white blood cells causes immune system damage. Uranyl compounds are also neurotoxins. Uranyl ion contamination has been found on and around depleted uranium targets.
Decay
Does Uranium decay when it’s in compounds with other elements? What happens to the bonds when it turns into some other element? What happens to the compound?
Chemical bonds can affect decay rates IIRC, but it's not usually a huge difference. The nucleus is still going to be unstable. It definitely changes the molecule (and might break it)
Chemical bonds can affect decay rates IIRC
That's interesting. Only read about this in High School and maybe because of the "not usually a huge difference", it was claimed that chemical bonds don't affect decay rates.
I always felt a bit weird with that conclusion, but maybe it was just to make the maths easier, not having to include effects from another force into the calculations.
It's like saying ants don't affect buildings. In the vast majority of situations it's true, but carpenter ants can destroy wooden structures in some cimates.
The high school class is concerned about the effects of gravity, wind, rain, earthquakes, and maybe taxes on buildings, while the college+ classes can get into the effects of wood eating organisms, angry tenants, and killdozers.
I was reading about some terribly unholy chemistry once where the researchers wanted to make a molecule but it just wouldn't happen. So they instead made it with a radioactive isotope of a heavier element, then as it decays the molecule becomes their desired product.
That is SICK. I love science hacks. Thank you for sharing!
Green Skittles
and then blood.
That's the aftertaste. Comes after quite a while.
Peroxide and dead mouth flesh.
i dont know, but since it is produced in a stage of uranium enrichmet, and chemists have a worrying tendency to accidentally taste stuff, I am convinced there's someone out there who knows.
I wouldn't drink dihidroxyuranium, but on the other side effects of dihydrogen monoxide intake are in every case fatal. We really should find some alternative.
PubChem has uranium dioxideperoxide, uranyl hydroxide, uranylhydroxyd, and the most cursed one which only has an IUPAC name: oxygen(2-);uranium;hydrate
One will make you urinate, the other will make you uraniuminate.
Actually the jury is still out on if oxidane is 100% lethal or not. A definite conclusion is expected to arrive ~at the end of anthropocene epoch.
Instructions unclear, I am now developing Shin Godzilla biology
Finally, one example where we don't have to explain to people that actually Uranium being toxic will kill you first.
Totally! It says premium drinking water but when you try and drink from it it makes a huge mess and everyone stares at U.
Electrolytes?
It's got what [Nuclear Power] plants crave!
Heavy Water™️ is sure to quench any Nuclear Power Plant thirst!
Ask for it by name!
The heavier the water, the deeper the thirst quenching!
Finally. Do you know how hard it is to find this stuff?
U...
No thanks...
In Russia they prefer simply pure Po-H(2)O, maybe with some tea
Voda - water
ka - a little
Vodka - water, a little
Checks out.
You waited for Star Wars Day to post this, didn't you?
Math checks out.