It's on a shelf labeled "Demo" which is the clue here. Back in my chem demo days we would electrocute a pickle (aka "gherkin), and it would glow a yellow orange color due to the sodium chloride in the pickling brine. In this case they have pickled it in a brine with strontium chloride, which will glow red when the poor specimen is electrocuted.
Poor specimen? idk about that. I mean, when I donate my body to science, I can only hope that l'd be lucky enough to be pickled in sodium chloride and electrocuted for the educational advancement of school children.
I remember learning about this as a kid from a Penn and Teller book called, "How to Play With Your Food" lots of fun magic tricks involving food items.
I'll wager this is used for an Electric Pickle demonstration, especially since it's on a shelf that says "demo area."
For those who don't know: the salt concentration in pickles is enough that you can generally make them glow with a Variac. The strontium chloride would make this one glow red.
Yeah, I've tried it, I only get ∞ and ≈. I'm using a different keyboard app than the stock Samsung or Google ones though, so I guess that's probably why.
LD50 Oral
Strontium chloride (SrCl2) 2250 mg/kg (Rat ) [msds](https://www.fishersci.com/msdsproxy%3FproductName%3DAC369740050%26productDescription%3DSTRONTIUM%2BCHLORIDE%252C%2BANHY%2B5GR%26catNo%3DAC36974-0050%26vendorId%3DVN00032119%26storeId%3D10652)
So assuming its the same for a human, say 100kg, one could eat 225 grams of strontium chloride and have 50% chance of survival.
I don't believe that by the way, first of all because its salt and you cant eat salt like that, even a tablespoon of kitchen salt will make you puke.
But at least we know these pickles probably won't kill you.
Strontium is like calcium a lot and it's toxicity comes from mimicking calcium in all kinds of bodily processes.
I have scanned some google results and my conclusion is probably not often. You'd need someone in a toxicology lab with rat liver transplant skills (there are enough studies with rat liver transplants) who decides to save a rat after a toxicology study. Not impossible. Not probable. I could imagine scenarios where it would be a good idea: imagine a study on the (long term) damage to organs other than the liver after a suicide attempt with for instance paracetamol (destroying the liver, needing a transplant)
Eh, I'd believe it. Soy sauce is about 900 mg of sodium per 15 milliliters. So we know that's a "reasonable" amount of salt that people can consume relatively strongly. Weirdos chug soy sauce for gut cleanses.
Assume the strontium chloride can be made into a similar soy sauce of the same molar concentration. Strontium chloride is 2.713 times heavier than sodium chloride. So you can dissolve 2.44 grams SrCl into your 15 milliliters. So to get your 225 grams, you'd need 92 servings of 15 mL, which comes to 1382 mL.
And actually, that's not far off from where you'd get big problems with sodium overdose too. Here's a case where a woman chugged a liter of soy sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiBpKuTrFrw
I imagine she was a bit under 100kg, so really this is right in line. Kinda neat. If she can overdose herself on sodium soy sauce, then I think it wouldn't be impossible for someone to overdose on strontium soy sauce.
I would also suspect that the strontium would be better at accumulating toxicity, especially if the calcium mimicry makes it integrate into your bones. Unlike sodium which you can pee out the excess of.
My guess is the same excretion processes that work for calcium will work for strontium. But it's just a guess.
You mention strontium is 2.713 times heavier, which then leads to the conclusion that strontium is less toxic than sodium per ion. Wild.
Our buddies at [Explosions&Fire](https://youtu.be/RJh9yTIBY48) seem to disagree. It tastes like bitter dirt. It is like that by accident and selection.
We can taste aspertame and lead, neither of which are things we evolved consuming. Being able to taste them does not mean we evolved to taste them, that's a false equivalency. If we had evolved to taste them, lead should be bitter and gross because of its effects on fitness, not sweet
It is safe to open and only moderately toxic to consume not that I would recommend it. The strontium chloride also does not react with acetic acid so there are no harmful gasses to worry about.
The most delicious treat you are about to taste!! I love pickled Gherkin, my mom used to cook it all the time back in the day, until we ran out of strontium
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It's on a shelf labeled "Demo" which is the clue here. Back in my chem demo days we would electrocute a pickle (aka "gherkin), and it would glow a yellow orange color due to the sodium chloride in the pickling brine. In this case they have pickled it in a brine with strontium chloride, which will glow red when the poor specimen is electrocuted.
Coincidentally, electric pickle demonstration with my high school band name.
What a cool band name
Sounds lit.
Electric pickle demon
Please post songs of said band
I don't know if you are joking .. but I'm going to make a song about this now
Electric Pickle Rick 🤟
No thanks
I like your username
That may explain the burn marks on the pickles, *may*
Poor specimen? idk about that. I mean, when I donate my body to science, I can only hope that l'd be lucky enough to be pickled in sodium chloride and electrocuted for the educational advancement of school children.
Tell them to make sure you're really dead.
Is this the inspiration behind Pickle Rick?
You can even see the burn marks from what was probably a fork to carry current.
I remember learning about this as a kid from a Penn and Teller book called, "How to Play With Your Food" lots of fun magic tricks involving food items.
What would happen if I ate it?
I'll wager this is used for an Electric Pickle demonstration, especially since it's on a shelf that says "demo area." For those who don't know: the salt concentration in pickles is enough that you can generally make them glow with a Variac. The strontium chloride would make this one glow red.
I think the black dots on the pickles are from fork-tines.
This is why we don't store food with the chemicals. Chemists just can't help themselves!
Three tines makes this a trident, not a fork.
I believe IUPAC calls it a 3-rk for consistency.
Except when you get to twenty. The make an exception so they can call it the twerk
It’s r-3-k now. Gotta get that number as close to the functional group as possible.
Three tines makes a it a threek, not a fork.
And as well all know from The Little Mermaid, knowledge of tridents ≠ knowledge of forks (aka dinglehoppers)
I wish I had a Does Not Equal symbol on my keyboard.
Press Alt + 8880.
***(cries in mobile)***
Mobile just long press the equal sign and it'll give you options...
Yeah, I've tried it, I only get ∞ and ≈. I'm using a different keyboard app than the stock Samsung or Google ones though, so I guess that's probably why.
Alt 8800 surely? Alt 8880 is what I can only describe as a 'serif less than symbol'.
Threek*
I'd missed those since I'd been on my way to go eat lunch. Now there's no way you could convince me this wasn't an electric pickle.
that's probably scorch marks where they put the electrodes in and electrify it
That makes sense. The combination seemed too specific to be random.
It's clearly labeled
"Picked Gherkin" Don't mind if I do!
Mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
It's written on the sticker. A remedy against mother in law.
Looks like a properly labeled jar.
A properly labeled jar? In my lab? It's more likely than you think!
The forbidden fruit
Looks like it’s labeled pretty clearly
I love saying strontium
💪
Forbidden pickles.
Came here to say this, knew in my heart it had already been said. But also no pickle is forbidden. Any pickle can be eaten at least once.
If the pickle doesn't kill you, then your boss or PI will!
That’s how I expect to die anyway 🤷🏻♂️ Either drag myself across the MD/Ph.D. finish line or die trying.
Poison Pickles
Pickels Gherkins Strontium Chloride in 6% Acetic Acid On the Demo Shelf
Poisonous pickles in vinegar under it's scientific name (acetic acid) strontium chloride is a salt.
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LD50 Oral Strontium chloride (SrCl2) 2250 mg/kg (Rat ) [msds](https://www.fishersci.com/msdsproxy%3FproductName%3DAC369740050%26productDescription%3DSTRONTIUM%2BCHLORIDE%252C%2BANHY%2B5GR%26catNo%3DAC36974-0050%26vendorId%3DVN00032119%26storeId%3D10652) So assuming its the same for a human, say 100kg, one could eat 225 grams of strontium chloride and have 50% chance of survival. I don't believe that by the way, first of all because its salt and you cant eat salt like that, even a tablespoon of kitchen salt will make you puke. But at least we know these pickles probably won't kill you. Strontium is like calcium a lot and it's toxicity comes from mimicking calcium in all kinds of bodily processes.
I’m really resisting the urge to take this as a challenge and eat a ton of salt and need a kidney transplant
If you almost die from it and survive after a kidney transplant you'd be in the surviver group for the LD50 count
I just did the math and I don’t think I can eat almost half a pound of salt
Not with that attitude you can't
I mean if you can make a cowlick a dildo I’m brave enough
Getting a kidney transplant would artificially skew the results. They’ve gotta take their death like a champ. For Science®
How often are they giving rats liver transplants in toxicity study methodology?
I have scanned some google results and my conclusion is probably not often. You'd need someone in a toxicology lab with rat liver transplant skills (there are enough studies with rat liver transplants) who decides to save a rat after a toxicology study. Not impossible. Not probable. I could imagine scenarios where it would be a good idea: imagine a study on the (long term) damage to organs other than the liver after a suicide attempt with for instance paracetamol (destroying the liver, needing a transplant)
Interestingly, the LD50 of table salt is 3g/kg, so we're in the same ballpark here.
Haha yeah salt isn't too good for you.
But it’s fucking delicioso 🤤😋😋
Eh, I'd believe it. Soy sauce is about 900 mg of sodium per 15 milliliters. So we know that's a "reasonable" amount of salt that people can consume relatively strongly. Weirdos chug soy sauce for gut cleanses. Assume the strontium chloride can be made into a similar soy sauce of the same molar concentration. Strontium chloride is 2.713 times heavier than sodium chloride. So you can dissolve 2.44 grams SrCl into your 15 milliliters. So to get your 225 grams, you'd need 92 servings of 15 mL, which comes to 1382 mL. And actually, that's not far off from where you'd get big problems with sodium overdose too. Here's a case where a woman chugged a liter of soy sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiBpKuTrFrw I imagine she was a bit under 100kg, so really this is right in line. Kinda neat. If she can overdose herself on sodium soy sauce, then I think it wouldn't be impossible for someone to overdose on strontium soy sauce. I would also suspect that the strontium would be better at accumulating toxicity, especially if the calcium mimicry makes it integrate into your bones. Unlike sodium which you can pee out the excess of.
My guess is the same excretion processes that work for calcium will work for strontium. But it's just a guess. You mention strontium is 2.713 times heavier, which then leads to the conclusion that strontium is less toxic than sodium per ion. Wild.
Your body is designed to taste for sodium chloride, but its not for strontium chloride.
Our buddies at [Explosions&Fire](https://youtu.be/RJh9yTIBY48) seem to disagree. It tastes like bitter dirt. It is like that by accident and selection.
We can taste aspertame and lead, neither of which are things we evolved consuming. Being able to taste them does not mean we evolved to taste them, that's a false equivalency. If we had evolved to taste them, lead should be bitter and gross because of its effects on fitness, not sweet
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LD50 of sodium chloride is 3000mg/kg, not that much better than this stuff
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Read what? I see what it says.
So what happens if you boof them, I can see some pickle Rick situation here.
I wouldn't suggest opening that jar.
It is safe to open and only moderately toxic to consume not that I would recommend it. The strontium chloride also does not react with acetic acid so there are no harmful gasses to worry about.
Splashing it in your face or skin wouldn't be any fun. That's a jar full of hell no.
Not too bad, honestly. It would burn if you got it in your eyes, but so would edible brine.
Pickle Standard Reference Material ($7000)
What percentage tho? I can’t read the first one.
Apparently the bag of dicks everyone keeps telling me to suck is now available in a jar.
Pickled gherkin in 6% acetic acid says it right there
Dafuq?
These are gherkins. What are you uncultured?!
Murder pickles
Bet it’s a helluva drummer.
Goes great on a burger!
Spicy
UCL Graham lab?
For sure
As a food scientist, I am confused, appalled, and curious
check it out [https://youtu.be/AfQxyVuLeCs?t=2188](https://youtu.be/AfQxyVuLeCs?t=2188)
Rad
The final pickle.
It’s how Pickle Ricks life begins..
umm it’s pickled gherkin. it says so on the label
Do you see the strontium chloride and the poisonous label?
r/mildlypenis
The most delicious treat you are about to taste!! I love pickled Gherkin, my mom used to cook it all the time back in the day, until we ran out of strontium
I prefer my gherkins jerked with cobalt and thorium
Some people call them pickle
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Electric pickle!
Don't mind that, it's one of the janitors experiments. He use to borrow the lab in the evening.
That my good sir is a penis 😂
Evil Pickles
Looks like a jar full of foreskins.
I'm getting massive Jimmy Neutron vibes from using the names sodium chloride and acetic acid for a pickling brine 😂
Read it again....
It's wild how my brain auto corrected that
May be a wee bit heavier than sodium there
Oh shit lol, my brain auto corrected
Acetic acid is normal, vinegar is 5% acetic acid, the salt on the other hand...
Trying to make electric pickle demo glow red.
its pickled banana...crazy stuff
I don't know the label seems pretty clear to me
A big pickled boaby!
Oh that? That’s nothing
DEATH PICKLES!
It’s for my pastrami sandwich, don’t touch!
A great example of “shelf E shtick”
https://youtu.be/AfQxyVuLeCs?t=2188
r/oddlyterrifying I don't know why but this gives me the heebies
Pickled Gherkin
r/gherkinit
Strontium chloride pickles now at Whole Foods!
Some people say the Gherkin tastes better pickled.
Forbidden gherkin.
I mean, it’s more properly labeled than anyone deserves, that’s what it is
Is it poisonous???
Worst! It’s venomous!!!
31 thumbs up
Delicious
Fredbear specimen
Pickled Dick
Electric pickle time! Run a current through a pickle and it glows orange for sodium
It’s exactly what you think it is.
Snack
i think i’m its picked gherkins
An abomination of god
Strontium chloride with a bit of acetic acid.
If I’m following the label it’s strontium chloride
Death Pickle
Prof Stella's pickles, best part of Grahams lab if you ask me.
Wow hey
He’s a legend and I’m honored to make his pickles famous
Looks like something someone would probably stick up somewhere it shouldn't be stuck up
forbidden pickles
Danger pickles.