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I just learned about "Salt (NaCl) is actually a combination of a highly poisonous gas (Cl) and a hazardous metal (Na)".

I'm sure there are lots of examples in life that this rule also applies to.

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[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sex is good! Dogs are good! Sex with dogs is NOT good!

O2 is great! Vital, even! Unpaired oxygen is highly toxic to all forms of life

[–] JulyTheMonth@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

O3 is again not good for us. Not breathe it and die but it attacks your lungs if you inhale too much.

[–] H1jAcK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[–] veloxization@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

I could make a joke considering the instance I'm on but I'll just bow out.

[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

Politicians and guillotines are terrible on their own, but when combined....

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chemistry is so weird like that, you should see the Nile red stuff where he turns paint thinner into cherry soda https://youtu.be/NIVkBs7oWDI?si=EK4OnaCu-zw4Ffzr

Or plastic gloves into hot sauce https://youtu.be/1B3Xi5L6siI?si=hqti_mueK2o-0A_h

Or cotton balls into cotton candy https://youtu.be/vHuFizITMdA?si=5-KRqq1qUz3S9Znq

[–] roanescence@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha the thought Emporium is similar too, but more biotech sort of stuff (which can be disturbing to some). He makes chicken soup out of chemicals as it's just taste buds manipulation https://youtu.be/sR8M4zARBXY?si=vuOkeYvR8IqFr3ZK

Milk into socks https://youtu.be/O4pVny7NV8E?si=ieas2EfrVMbNoTz1

Or a meat leaf https://youtu.be/JNfQCRzcr3o?si=AGwejFi2wqqoDSKv

[–] roanescence@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So is it possible that these things really have of those properties of real things not just taste buds manipulation? So was the cotton to cotton candy... Made it REAL COTTON CANDY? IF YES THEN I'M LEAVING THIS PLANET.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Cotton to cotton candy isn't hard, they're both carbohydrates already.

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, you could really blow your mind by understanding what chemistry is.

[–] roanescence@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

Just say i can be an alchemist 🦌

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Steak sause and ice cream is bad, Making out and cousin are meh on their own but great together.

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Alcohol is generally well tolerated in reasonable quantities, the common ink cap mushroom is edible, but if eaten alongside alcohol it becomes poisonous

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Jesus. Not even alongside. It is poisonous to consume alcohol up to three days after eating them.

The symptoms can occur if even a small amount of alcohol is consumed up to three days after eating the mushrooms, although they are milder as more time passes.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

If like to see this in a murder mystery

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

this one is pretty scary. my brother loves to get pissed and do mushrooms he forages himself. I know he knows what he's doing but you never know

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grapefruit fucks with a lot of medications (if you regularly eat grapefruit, check to make sure none of your medications are affected by it). The effects can range from nullifying the medication, to increasing the effects (potentially fatally), or causing the medication to become toxic (also potentially fatally).

Wrinkly, wet fingers (after a nice long shower) grabbing soft, dry, fluffy blankets. Eeeeuuuuggggghhhhjjjjj. God, it hurts just thinking about it.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think wrinkly fingers are good on their own?

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

No, but they're a result of taking a nice, long shower, bath or swim.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The gases of Hydrochloric Acid and Ammonia mixed together form Ammonium chloride. Which, among other things, is used as salmiak to make salty licorice.
I remember making this in high school, it's the very first thing that pops in my head whenever I think of bad + bad = good. Granted, you must like salty licorice, or it'll be bad + bad = disgusting :)

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good thing that I'm Dutch. Licorice is victory, victory is life!

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Those double salt atrocities will never pass my lips again!

[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Tooth paste and orange juice.

[–] Rylyshar@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Aecosthedark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Together at last!

[–] radix@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Can't think of anything myself, but I just want to say this is a really good unique question.

Tuna fish milkshake

Skittles and M&Ms. Trust me. They smell great but are inedible together.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't like espresso, or any coffee really, and I definitely don't like Liquor 43. But there's a South American cocktail called a Carajillo that's those two ingredients, fresh espresso and Liquor 43 and nothing else, dry shaken together... and its friggen delicious. Just absolutely amazing.

[–] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Hehe, not just South American, it's pretty common in Spain, with a variety of spirits ... I've seen people using Cognac, Anise ... all kinds really, some more controversial than others.

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Butternut squash soup is awful without any spices and spices are too strong to be ingested by themselves but together it's one of the best soups.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in the minority with this. But I like bananas on their own. And I like milk on its own. But I don't like banana milk.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are two groups of people, people who hate drinking milk and creeps

Edit: I'll accept babies as a third but they are creeps too ngl, I just cant say that without being judged

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Banana milk is odd, both loved and hated it as a kid, and nowadays something about it makes me feel really ill (even when accounting for lactose intolerance), yet I love the banana from banana and prawn sweets.

In a similar vein hotdogs make me feel like death, like doubled over from stomach cramps

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we stop at “banana and prawn sweets”?

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

They're a classic English pick'n'mix sweet, with a texture that basically like somewhere in-between a candy cigarette that's been inflated/puffed up and what I imagine the circus peanuts candies (which we don't have in the UK) would be like, flavored with artificial banana flavour and I think the prawns are supposed to be strawberry (but I honestly don't know).

They're somewhere in-between gross and great, depending on if you like sweet things or not.

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Gummy bears + Spaghetti with meatballs

Red wine and Champagne.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are fairly subjective, but:

  • Good+good = bad: garlic and fish, cheese sauce and pasta, soft yolk egg and rice
  • Bad+bad = good: soprano aria and rap
[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

You don't like mac'n'cheese?