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Das

The yellow glow from sodium ions as electricity passes through a pickle, same kinda yellow that tells us that some stars are made of sodium

(Fun doing a quick little demo for my Univ social media folks. Only remembered to pull my phone out just before I stopped)

@SRDas wait….so, stars are made of pickles??

@FlockOfCats and the moon is made of cheese, it's a regular picnic up in space
:)

@SRDas so what I want to know is which came first: knowledge of the association of sodium with yellow, or someone thinking "I'm gonna hook some electrodes up to a pickle and see what happens"

@eugeneparnell electrodes in pickles are relatively new. People, scientists have been looking at stars and light for a long long time.

Melville 1750s
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor

en.m.wikipedia.orgHistory of spectroscopy - Wikipedia

@Meat_Bucket 😄
If there's enough calcium they'll be crunchy too!

@SRDas next you’re gonna tell me there are glutamic acids, and that Frito Lay will stake a claim.

@Meat_Bucket this is the dark side of the milky way