Yum yum, Barium

[bennator]

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?

[DreamingOfDreams]

No, why were you having tests done?

[Zeldy]

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

[Jess]

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.

[Maxico]

Yay barium meal.

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

[Dr.K]

Yay barium meal.

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

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

[Ste]

Yay barium meal.

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

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

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 )

[Resha]

I see Barium in Chemistry experiments.

[Chaos]

That stuff is radioactive isnt it?

You will glow green.

Chaos

[XxSephirothxX]

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

[eestlinc]

you drink barium to test for ulcers.

[o_O]

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

[Cruise Control]

Barium tastes like chocolate milk!

[Leeza]

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

[CloudDragon]

I know barium is used in making flares.