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What would be the different effects on the human body of drinking 10g vs 100g vs 1000g (ml) of platinum or gallium?
by 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 agoIf it is Platinum you go bankrupt.
- jhgb 4y agoBut 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 agoThere are accounts of people drinking mercury (13.5 g/mL) to feel it sloshing around in their stomach.
- Natsu 4y agoApparently 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...