What liquids can you drink besides water?

[Aerozord]

ok I was thinking of all the chemicals that are liquid at room temperature and which you can drink without it killing you. Most were ultimately water, juice or sap for example are only in a liquid state because of the water in them. So I was trying to think of non-water examples. Only one I could think of was alcohol but thats arguable since enough of that will still kill you.

Guys got any others?

[TDK]

Bromine, iodine, various oils (vegetable oil and such), to name a few.

[synkr0nized]

Isn't bromine too toxic for consumption?

I've used iodine to help clean up water while out hiking and junk, but I don't think I'd want to just drink it by itself, either.

[Aerozord]

did not know about bromine, but it doesn't take much iodine to make you very ill, or kill you

[Nikose Tyris]

If drinking too much of something invalidates it, then water is also invalidated, as you can die from drinking too much.

Admittedly it's a stupid amount of 'too much', but the arguement can exist.

So you'd need to decide what qualifies as a 'drinkable amount'. how does "1 cup" sound?

[Aerozord]

yes but reverse is true, small amount of anything is non-fatal. you need to have a cut off point. Like a shot glass worth

[Nikose Tyris]

Silicone Oil would work, as it wouldn't break down in the body and pass through.

The stuff in non-toxic glow sticks gets mixed in alcoholic drinks all the time, so I assume it's fine too. [It also makes your pee glow]

[synkr0nized]

See, I was assuming we'd use common sense and go with a typical amount of something to drink, like a glass or a pitcher (e.g. beer), so we wouldn't have to sit around and explicate the extremes on either end.

But I guess that's silly -- let's define exact volumes!



I did not know that about silicon oil. It just flys through you? Like a White Castle burger?

[Nikose Tyris]

Silly Synk, we're not dealing with casual assumptions here

THIS IS SCIENCE

[Aerozord]

The stuff in non-toxic glow sticks gets mixed in alcoholic drinks all the time, so I assume it's fine too. [It also makes your pee glow]

might be disqualified for being water based. Aren't those glow in the dark chemicals naturally solids?

[Kerensky287]

You can drink like 50 nanograms of botulism toxin. That won't kill you, assuming you're an average-sized adult male. It varies based on your body mass.

You can't say what kinds of things will and won't kill you because there are lots of things that will only kill you beyond a certain point. Alcohol's a good example. Drink too much and you'll throw up, pass out, and possibly die.

Do you just mean stuff that doesn't have a lethal dosage that we know about?

EDIT: I know botulism toxin probably doesn't count (the fact that I listed the quantity in grams means it's probably solid at room temperature, I couldn't care to check) but I was just using it as an example. There are lots of things you can drink that are solid at room temperature but very water-soluble.

I just looked up Mercury (as in, Hg) though, just for an example. Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful when it comes to determining how much mercury you have to drink before it'll kill you, sadly. It does list maximum drinkable mercury concentration in water, but I'm trying to see if you could just put a tiny drop of mercury in a shot glass and just slam it as a party trick.

[Nikose Tyris]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol

Luminol is ingestible with no adverse affects, and is one of the chemicals in glowsticks.

...is glow in the dark poop an adverse side affect?

[Aldurin]

depends on how you define adverse . . .

[Aerozord]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol

Luminol is ingestible with no adverse affects, and is one of the chemicals in glowsticks.

...is glow in the dark poop an adverse side affect?

ummm Nikose

"melting point 606 °F"

[Krylo]

That's only like half the temperature of a basic candle flame. You can totally drink that. Don't be a pussy.

[Nikose Tyris]

weird... the page says that stuff is listed in it's standard state at 25C; but I suppose I should have checked the melting point.

[TDK]

That brings up another point in addition to how much of it you must be able to drink; at what temperature must it be a liquid? Iodine is a solid at what might be considered 'room temperature'.

[Aerozord]

lets say anywhere between 50-100 degrees F

of course safe assumption if being at a temperature thats fatal to humans, then drinking it would be

[Seil]

The stuff in non-toxic glow sticks gets mixed in alcoholic drinks all the time, so I assume it's fine too. [It also makes your pee glow]

What!? (http://chemistry.about.com/b/2008/03/20/glow-in-the-dark-drinks-spring-break.htm) Brb, alcoholic chemistry. (http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/blog/glowing-drinks-part-2/#axzz1NF5P0siT)

Last year for spring break I went to Hawaii, but before I left I checked out the festivities at home in Myrtle Beach, where I saw glow-in-the-dark drinks. This year I'm going mining in North Carolina (more on that in a few days), but I've been thinking about those glowing drinks.

It's not hard to find a glowing drink. It's hard to find a non-toxic glowing drink. Drinks glow because they emit radiation in the form of visible light. You could get this glow if your drink was emitting other radiation in addition to visible light, like if it contained tritium or uranium, but those drinks are not good for you. Your drink can glow if it's involved in a chemiluminescent reaction. You could get this effect by adding living bioluminescent organisms to your drink. Some seawater is bioluminescent (not good to drink); so is some soil (not a good flavoring). Some lightsticks are non-toxic, but non-toxic is not the same as potable.

So... what can you drink? Go for phosphorescent or fluorescent drinks, where one of the chemicals in the beverage glows from excitation by a UV lamp. One of the brightest glowing drinks is tonic water or a gin and tonic. Tonic water exhibits a bright fluorescence from the quinine that is added as a flavoring. Another option would be absinthe. There is an alcoholic drink called Everglo that doesn't glow, but does come in a glow-in-the-dark bottle.

I'm often asked how to make glow in the dark cocktails. This can't really be done, but you can make blacklight reactive drinks and use glow in the dark accessories for some neat effects

Tonic water is made from quinine. This bitter tasting soda like water, is made from the bark of the Cinchona tree found in the Andes Mountains. It was originally used to treat Malaria. It helps to reduce fevers and leg cramps as well. The neat thing is that Quinine is also photochemical reactive. That means it glows blueish white when exposed to ultraviolet or blacklights. The fluorescent quality is best when you use a lot of tonic water in your drink. The following is a list of drinks to make that will glow.

[Aerozord]

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If you dont know why, very last line

[Seil]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u59/Poetisch/paintdrinkingpete.png

After strenuous research, I've figured out that paint is bad, but rubbing alcohol is good as long as you chug it.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u59/Poetisch/rubbingalcohol.png

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Blood.Sweet sweet blood.

[Sithdarth]

Vinegar, also just about any form of natural acid and quite a few heavily diluted acids as long as we don't care about heavy dilution. You could also probably chug a shot glass worth of nitroglycerin and probably wouldn't explode. Might die from the other effects though. If you're really careful and we don't care about vomiting blood and having seizures (not to mention cancer) you could probably get down a shot glass of Benzene (probably have to dilute that as well though). Apparently it's rather hard to get something that is both relatively harmless and liquid at decent temperatures. Seems like you need some type of hydrogen bonding to even have a shot at liquid and harmless. Otherwise you end up with a crazy heavy molecule.

[CABAL49]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol

Luminol is ingestible with no adverse affects, and is one of the chemicals in glowsticks.

...is glow in the dark poop an adverse side affect?

My dog once got into a box of glow in the dark crayons. She seemed fine and we always knew where not to step at night. So...not too bad?

[Aerozord]

Blood.Sweet sweet blood.
blood is a liquid thanks to water and
also just about any form of natural acid and quite a few heavily diluted acids as long as we don't care about heavy dilution.

acids often require a liquid to be dissolved in. Even if not, you'd need to dilute it in something, usually water, which kind of negates the "non-water based liquid" requirement.