Yum yum, Barium

I had to get all sorts of tests done today, and they made me drink Barium. Let me tell you about barium. It's white and looks lik a thin milkshake, good so far. Then you smell it, the smell is like decaying grapes. Then you drink it. It has the consitancy of chalky vomit, and about the same test. Then they make you drink 30 oz. of it while trying not to hurl. Then they turn you radioactive with x-rays. Then, for hours afterwords, you taste it when you burp. It's ddisgusting.

So, any of you have to drink barium and get turned all glowy?

No, why were you having tests done?

Ive had something like that, "Milk and Magnesia"?
It soothes tummy aches, but it tastes like paper :(

I'm not completely sure if I've drunk Barium, but I've drunk something which tastes like what you described. Boy oh Boy, do I love medicine. :(

Yay barium meal.

Also that wasn't baruim. It was a compound of barium.

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Originally Posted by Maxico

Yay barium meal.

Also that wasn't baruim. It was a compound of barium.

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Just as well too :) If you ingested Barium, or a soluble compound of Barium, you'd die pretty quickly. It's the insolubility of some Barium compounds that allows all that funky X-ray shizzle to take place. I'd still be paranoid about drinking it though :(

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Originally Posted by Maxico

Yay barium meal.

Also that wasn't baruim. It was a compound of barium.

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Just as well too :) If you ingested Barium, or a soluble compound of Barium, you'd die pretty quickly. It's the insolubility of some Barium compounds that allows all that funky X-ray shizzle to take place. I'd still be paranoid about drinking it though :(

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yeh bariums quite a nasty thing to make you drink ;)

wouldnt be all that happy about drinking it myself

(but would prefer it to the aspirin we made in chem :eyebrow: )

I see Barium in Chemistry experiments. :eek: :(

That stuff is radioactive isnt it?

You will glow green. :D

Chaos

I've had to drink charcoal before. It was pretty bad. :(

you drink barium to test for ulcers.

I wouldn't drink it. They use barium in enemas. Well, barium sulfate, but hey, it still goes in your bum. :p

Barium tastes like chocolate milk!

Yes, I've had to drink it before. It's not very pleasant.

I know barium is used in making flares.

I've heard of it, but I've never had to drink it before.

[q="Dr.K"]Just as well too If you ingested Barium, or a soluble compound of Barium, you'd die pretty quickly. It's the insolubility of some Barium compounds that allows all that funky X-ray shizzle to take place. I'd still be paranoid about drinking it though [/q]

I know that, geeze, but that's what the technicians refer to it is, so that's what I called it. Actually, it's barium sulfate with sodium sulfate inorder to keep as few barium ions from being absorbed as possible, but that's beside the point. Today I got to see it come out the other end which also wasn't pleasant. I'm getting all these test done to see (rule out hopefully) ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease...I get a colonoscopy tomorrow too (what fun, I know)

I had to drink banana flavoured calpol as a child, and i didn't like bananas (still don't) and that made me hurl so bad...but this mythical "Barium" substance, quite curious...i probably had it fed to me at some point in a botched murder attempt.

To answer an earlier question, radioactive barium can be made as a result of fission.