For supper tonight, you are being treated to the tasting menu of a lifetime. The intermittent table of elements. The occasional table is how we sort out all the realized elements.
Those are substances with just one kind of atom. And they can't be divided into any easier substances. Out of the 118 elements that make up the occasional table, some have comparative properties. Some act in comparable ways. And some don't exist naturally. 20 of them should be created in laboratories because of how unsound they are. So in case you're feeling adventurous, it's an ideal opportunity to add some science to your diet.
But you could be risking a parcel in excess of an agitated stomach. You're tasting menu would begin with the elements that are the essential structure blocks of your body.
As the server would explain, the culinary specialist has prepared these six components in relation to you. So partake in your dish of 65% oxygen, 18.5% hydrogen, 3.2% nitrogen, 1.5% calcium and 1% phosphorus. For your next dish, the server would bring you a little collection of elements that your body depends on to function. Please partake in your six reduced down portions of sodium, potassium, magnesium, selenium, iron and copper.
Lucky for you, these are generally totally protected to eat. Unless you eat too much. Especially, copper. You'd notice that the character has notes of acridity, sharpness and saltiness. Maybe you'd like it enough that you'd demand some more.
"Please, sir." That would be a major mistake. Now you'd experience a low-level amount of copper toxicity, which could prompt kidney failure, brain harm or even death if you don't quit eating right away. Then the waiter would bring throughout the following course of a few non-responsive elements with an extravagant name, the respectable gases. Inside scentless and colorless tasting tubes are helium and argon. This course would be a ton of fun.
With each taste of helium gas, you'd find your voice sounding abnormal and high-pitched. This would be entertaining for a bit. But you'd begin to feel light-headed. "I truly shouldn't do this." That's on the grounds that this helium would be displacing the oxygen that your cerebrum needs. When your server arrived with the following dish, they would present it with an exceptional warning. Antimony could make you need to utilize the restroom. This semi-metal was utilized as a laxative in middle age times. After your fast washroom break, it's the ideal opportunity for the malodorous course.
Are you prepared to be grossed out by the smells of sulfur, selenium and livermorium? Well, you'd be shocked to find out that these components alone don't smell like anything. Sulfur and selenium only smell like spoiled eggs or garlic when joined with hydrogen. And researchers haven't yet produced the livermorium hydrogen compound, so we don't have a clue what it smells like. But it's a profoundly unstable and radioactive element.
So eat it quick. Your server would now caution you that the remainder of the dishes are undependable for consumption. But you're feeling a little risky. So you take the plunge anyway. To start your destructive portion of dishes, you'd have mercury. You wouldn't notice any prompt effects because indications of mercury poisoning like tremors, poor memory and trouble walking take quite a while to develop. Next, two minuscule segments of radium and the honorable gas radon. These components are radioactive. And delayed exposure could bring about lung or bone cancer. Good thing your segments are small because you could likewise experience nausea and increased heart rate from intense radiation sickness.
Finally, you've reached the last course of the evening. And the last course of your whole life. You'd attempt a tad bit of the tasteless and unscented arsenic. This would quickly cause nausea, bleeding and diarrhea. It could likewise prompt an excruciating death in a couple of hours. And you'd likewise get a taste of receptive elements like francium and fluorine. These are dangerous. Francium would react with the water on your tongue and detonate in your mouth. Literally. And fluorine is so corrosive and combustible that it would burn nearly everything it comes into contact with.
Especially you. So that is the place where you're tasting menu ends. Sadly you didn't get all the elements. Some of them wouldn't be ready to exist in a kitchen anyway. You'd need to visit a lab in request to experience some of the most unsteady ones.
While a portion of the elements could kill you after one bite, there are numerous elements that you wouldn't be ready to reside without. Like carbon.