Gallium spoon melting

[shian]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbYiO5BRYk[/media]

[Hesychasmos]

It's all a funny prank until someone drinks gallium

[The mouse]

[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;28318028]It's all a funny prank until someone drinks gallium[/QUOTE]

How toxic is it?

[sporface]

[QUOTE=The mouse;28318134]How toxic is it?[/QUOTE]

Can't be fun having it solidify in your stomach

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=sporface;28318293]Can't be fun having it solidify in your stomach[/QUOTE]
Melting point is 30C and as far as I know inside temperature of living human is generally higher than that. It wouldn't solidify before you would shit it out.

[shian]

So shitting liquid metal?

[Awesomecaek]

[quote=wiki]While not considered toxic, the data about gallium are inconclusive. Some sources suggest that it may cause [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatitis"]dermatitis[/URL] from prolonged exposure; other tests have not caused a positive reaction. Like most metals, finely divided gallium loses its luster and powdered gallium appears gray. Thus, when gallium is handled with bare hands, the extremely fine dispersion of liquid gallium droplets, which results from wetting skin with the metal, may appear as a gray skin stain.[/quote]

So this should apparently be rather safe.

I wouldn't consciously eat/drink it, tho.

[editline]27th February 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=shian;28318429]So shitting liquid metal?[/QUOTE]
yeah, now how hardcore is that

[superdinoman]

[QUOTE=The mouse;28318134]How toxic is it?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/gallium.htm[/url]

Shouldn't be to toxic. I still wouldnt drink it if I were you

[FPSMango]

Google'd Gallium and this was the first Image that appeared:
[img]http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/images/ency/fullsize/9595.jpg[/img]

:wtc:

[aznz888]

[QUOTE=FPSMango;28322189]Google'd Gallium and this was the first Image that appeared:
[img_thumb]http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/images/ency/fullsize/9595.jpg[/img_thumb]

:wtc:[/QUOTE]

it's the same concept of any other reactive substance that appears on a scan

it's not pure gallium metal fyi

[Shadow Core]

Holy shit! Terminator 2 is playing right now... Looks like the transforming metal terminator O.o