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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    make nickel yellow (some people are allergic) osmium will be probably covered by layer of toxic tetroxide, cadmium and tellurium are also decently toxic

    e: i misremembered, but you still don’t want to be around tellurium:

    Humans exposed to as little as 0.01 mg/m3 or less in air exude a foul garlic-like odor known as “tellurium breath”.[23][91] This is caused by the body converting tellurium from any oxidation state to dimethyl telluride, (CH3)2Te, a volatile compound with a pungent garlic-like smell. Volunteers given 15 mg of tellurium still had this characteristic smell on their breath eight months later. In laboratories, this odor makes it possible to discern which scientists are responsible for tellurium chemistry, and even which books they have handled in the past.[92]

    selenium is a bit similar in this aspect

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      6 months ago

      why is cerium yellow but other lantanides green, technetium is cheaper than you think (fission product) but it’s also radioactive

      plutonium and americium, and maybe uranium also should be blue, CIA would anal probe you for less

      • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        6 months ago

        You’re right, wikipedia prices are way outdated. Unenriched isotopes aren’t blue 'cause I’m assuming they’d let you live.

        Edit: I couldn’t find the reason for that, someone just told me to make it yellow. Back to green it goes.