And it makes your tummy feel better. Bismuth master race
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But it can also make your poop black, so be prepared for that so you don't go running off to the hospital for intestinal bleeding.
Combine this with beets for an extra good time.
It can also make your tongue turn black if you do the Pepto bismol chewy things
Yeah, my wife learned that one the hard way when she ate one before bed. Had quite the shock in the morning.
and smell better too
Glad to see some bismuth love, but c'mon.
- "Every single metal element" then calls out copper & gold separately.
- No respect for chromium, which probably has more colorful compounds than any metal.
- No cobalt either?
- Manganese can be quite coppery; palladium and ytterbium can be gold-ish.
I know it's an oxide, but you allowed bismuth!
I wonder if there are some metals that appear grey to us but actually have a color, we just don't see it because it's outside our visible spectrum
Uranium is neon blue:
... when charged particles move faster than the speed of light
So that got me curious, and found this
nothing travels faster than light in vacuum, but light can be slowed down and something can travel faster than this "slower" light
Somehow I've gone through decades of life without knowing this..
uranium itself isn't, anything will glow that colour if it undergoes nuclear fission underwater.
Actually uranium is a really bright yellow color. It's called "yellowcake" during processing..
That is the very definition of colour. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see. The rest of the scale includes infrared, gamma or X-ray. If you want, you can call them invisible colours - or you can call green superhighultraviolet.
In everyday context yes, but it’s pretty common to use “colour” to refer to frequency outside the visible range, and it’s interesting to consider what interesting “colours” we are missing out on because they’re outside our visible range.
Silver/grey implies even response across the spectrum, and is the normal expectation.
If we couldn’t see yellow (red/green) then gold would presumably look silver to us, so are there silver/grey metals that would have an interesting colour if only we could see it?
If a bee sees a color we cannot, it would be pretty silly to insist it's not a color on the basis of us being unable to see it, wouldn't it?
Are there creatures that see radio? (Which I suppose is pretty general.) if so, they must hate us.
Color is visible light in the human spectrum. We would say they see in the ultraviolet or infrared spectrum. Non human animals don’t use the literature so it’s designed with human perception in mind.
Well infrared goes the other direction. Along with radio.
What about pyrite? Or Iron Maiden?
Pyrite isn't a metal. It's an oxide.
That's what it wants you to believe.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby.
Wrong Iron.
I disagree.
Bi pride?
Dr. Color
The top two houses are in LA at the beach, no?
Not sure why, I don't even live in the US, but I recognize them
I shoulda got my class ring in bismuth instead of bloodstone... I don't even remember if that was an option 🤔