I saw a tee-shirt once that said “Get*** REALLY*** stoned. Drink wet cement!”
What would happen if someone drank a significant amount of cement? Would it pass before hardening? How would the stomachs digestive process react? If it hardened in the stomach, then what?
Even worse, what if cement were poured from a funnel into a womans vagina and allowed to harden? Would the hardened slab fall out when she stood up? Would it cause death? Death from what?
Cement is very caustic.
Yes. The person in either situation in the OP will get such severe, probably fatal, chemical burns to their mucus membranes that whether the cement sets up will be a secondary concern.
When I was young my father was pouring concrete for bridge construction, working in a cofferdam below the waters surface, and his boots got filled with concrete. Burned the skin right off until they were raw. Put him out of work for a month or so. Now, the concrete was probably mixed “hot” to set up at cold temperatures but even normal concrete applications set up due to a chemical heat reaction.
I have heard somewhere of a food and cement mixture being used to kill rats. I think drinking cement would be a very very bad idea
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I’m sorry, I just had to chime in. I first bought one of Mr. Adams’ books, oh, decades ago now. And as soon as I saw your post, I knew what you were talking about.
Peace:)
On one of those stupid “Hundred Horrible Ways to Die” type shows not too long ago, they talked about a couple who experimented with a cement enema. It didn’t go well. The internal membranes began to be eaten away almost immediately, and IIRC at least some of it hardened before they were able to get it out. The guy died.
There was this case, in which a man received a concrete enema. He went to the ER after it cured, and they were able to extract it as a single piece; he apparently survived with no long-term health effects. There is a (non-link) citation to the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology; I haven’t followed it to confirm it’s real, but the page I linked to contains links to an X-ray and a photo of the concretion that was extracted from the man’s rectum.
I feel compelled to point out the huge difference between cement and concrete.
And yet you didn’t.
He’s got the compulsion under control.
Band name … ?
How quickly do the burns set in? Do people who write their name/initial in concrete with their finger get a speedy retribution?
It’s not bad with tough epidermis like you have on your hands. I’ve handled wet concrete and then taken up to 1/2 hour before thoroughly washing it off. I had no noticeable effects.
I’ve “formed” wet concrete with my bare hands with no ill effects. Granted I didn’t keep my hands in it any longer than necessary and washed them afterward so YMMV.
ETA: Ooops, “Wombat” beat me to it.
Never mind all that… I had that t-shirt in 1978 when I was in 8th grade!
I had a job once which involved pouring bags of cement into a mixer. Although everyone wore gloves and (supposedly) dust masks, getting a rash was a common hazard; especially if the dust got onto your skin and rubbed in by clothing while you sweated.
A mixture of peanut butter and plaster of paris does the same thing.