Thank you, I stand corrected.
Well, no, it doesn’t magically transform into oxygen in your body, does it? Point is, it doesn’t cause lethal harm to your lung tissue, as most liquid solvents (including, indeed, pure distilled water!) probably would.
Cite for this please (or calculation!) I am aware that oxygen is, indeed, very soluble in the stuff, but would you actually risk hypoxemia from drinking a shot-glass of it as long as you were able to breathe all along?
Liz Phair has a health recommendation for a pure liquid substance to drink for helping to clear skin, make hair shiny and generally feel nice. Do not look up what it is while at work. I was shocked when I heard the song.
A glass of warm gallium would be a tad safer, though metallic mercury probably wouldn’t cause serious problems either.
As I understand it, one of the reasons chloroflourocarbon refrigerants were so widely used is that they were nontoxic (as well as noncorrosive and nonconductive). I don’t know enough to say you could drink it, but maybe you could.
The Second Stone, you’re going to need to give us a little more than that to Google for.
The name of the song is HWC
I am pretty sure that semen is chemically complex.
Gasoline and Kerosine are corrosive. My guess is acid, since you make lubricant soaps by reacting petroleum-based oils with metals. If you drink gasoline, do not induce vomiting: you will get burned on the way up as well as on the way down. Treat ingested gasoline or kerosine with copious water and activated charcol
I hear that you can drink small amounts of liquid nitrogen and you’ll be fine.
DON’T DO THIS!
I realize your post might be sarcasm but I’m unsure of the purpose of this thread.
To be clear, it is, in all seriousness, possible to drink small quantities of liquid nitrogen without harm. The safe amount, however, is extremely small, such that it would be all too easy to accidentally drink a dangerously large amount, and the experiment should therefore not be deliberately conducted.
And to Doctor Jackson:
No. Everything you eat or drink is a mixture of chemical compounds, usually a very large number of them. Eating or drinking pure (or nearly-pure) compounds is pretty rare, aside from water.
Oh yeah, I remember reading about perfluorodecalin breathing in my college comparative physiology class.
IIRC, though, even though you can ‘breathe’ certain oxygen-saturated liquids, you’d bee in big trouble once you get taken OUT of the liquids, because it washes away the surfactants on the surfaces of the alveoli, so your lungs can’t function properly in the air anymore. Not sure if that was perfluorodecalin or some other liquid though.
Another problem with liquid breathing:
“A significant problem, however, arises from the high viscosity of the liquid and the corresponding reduction in its ability to remove CO2.[3][20] All uses of liquid breathing for diving must involve total liquid ventilation (see above). Total liquid ventilation, however, has difficulty moving enough liquid to carry away CO2, because no matter how great the total pressure is, the amount of partial CO2 gas pressure available to dissolve CO2 into the breathing liquid can never be much more than the pressure at which CO2 exists in the blood (about 40 mm of mercury (Torr)).[20]”
By the same argument, it may be possible to quaff a small amount of liquid sulfur hexafluoride without harm. Boils at -70 degrees and is famously inert.
Just thinking aloud - Tipping cryogenic liquids down the hatch obv not recommended.
Remind me never to come over for drinks.
A spoonful of sugar. M. Poppins.
Well, yes, but how often do you actually eat a spoonful of sugar, not mixed in with anything else?
Previous thread all about drinking deuterium.
Yabbut, the theme of the thread isn’t about whether it’s a common occurrence, but whether one could do it without much harm.
But you can’t drink pure sucrose (or if you did, you’d be quite badly burned, if you weren’t already asphyxiated).