Toxicity above 0.00002 g in a day (expect shortness of breath, diarrea, polka dot skin rashes besides getting buzzed from the beer and probably an insignificant tad of neural effects), and higher long term incidence of respiratory cancers, and at 15 grams or so will likely cause you heart failure on the spot. That of course, depends on how well you brew it as plenty of kids have eaten nickel clad coins (US 10c, 25c, 50c, etc.), and lived, or straight nickel alloy coins. For 15 g you would need a minimum of 200 grams or so of your garden variety coarse octahedrite and more of course if you got stoned meteorites.
In case you wondered, nickel uptaken accumulates in the body. 2% of the amount you eat/drink and 10% of the amount you snort will stick around accumulating with a biological half life activity in you of 3.5 years. So drinking it is clearly the safer bet. Brewers can practice on tailings or leached slurries from old nickel ore mining operations to approximate the effects before trying the good stuff, if they have any sanity left. Saludos, Doug -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subj: Re: [meteorite-list] Beer 'n' meteorites Date: 8/26/2004 11:21:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: "Marc D. Fries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from the Internet (Details) Greetings, list Very true - I was kidding! I should have been clear on that; it can be difficult to read a person's intent through email. I can almost picture the ebay ad that might have resulted - "Canyon Diablo individual, only been brewed once, some hop inclusions, weathering grade SM (slightly malty), tests positive for organics". That, and if this guy makes another batch of that beer with the nut in it, I think I'll let him drink it all himself. That is a clear violation of the Reinheitsgebot...! Cheers (not to be taken literally), MDF > Hi Marc and all, > > Brewers beware as iron meteorites do contain nickel which is toxic. I > don't know > how much it would take to cause heath problems but probably not a good > idea to > brew irons at this time. I've seen some Zagami (glass in that stony > material) > eaten and there is the story of the Russian who ate some/part of the > meteorite > that fell in his area. Also Mbale was eaten and thought to be a cure for > aids. > All my best! > > --AL > --- Marc D. Fries ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
