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Given that Gallium is basically non-toxic and so is platinum, it probably wouldn't be the end of the world unless you chugged like a pint?

• unsupp0rted 4y ago
  What would be the different effects on the human body of drinking 10g vs 100g vs 1000g (ml) of platinum or gallium?
  • PaulHoule 4y ago
    If it is Platinum you go bankrupt.
    • jhgb 4y ago
      But that only affects your body if you're made of money.
  • LeifCarrotson 4y ago
    > 1000g (ml) Water has a density of 1 g/mL, most other fluids we ingest are close, but gallium weighs 5g per milliliter and platinum over 20 g/ml. In purely mechanical considerations, 1000 ml of platinum would weigh 21.4 kg or almost 50 lbs. I'm not a doctor, but I imagine the stomach is not able to hold that much weight!
    • db65edfc7996 4y ago
      There are accounts of people drinking mercury (13.5 g/mL) to feel it sloshing around in their stomach.
  • Natsu 4y ago
    Apparently a lethal dose is somewhere around 140g because it reacts with stomach acid to form gallium trichloride which is poisonous: https://yesdirt.com/is-gallium-toxic/ https://yesdirt.com/is-gallium-toxic/ Some compounds of it may have medical uses, though: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898053/ That said, people have swallowed even crazier things, like when they used to use mercury (!!!) as a laxative: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/following-lewis-and-clarks-trail-of-mercurial-laxatives https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/following-lewi...