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Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Tree Bucket posted:

What actually happens if you drink the spicy water? I guess the answer is "dead" but, like, instantly dead or one week dead or one decade dead?

Probably "dead from cancer" dead, if you kept drinking it for longer periods. I'll just quote wikipedia

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Water stored overnight in a vintage Revigator was analyzed by ICP-MS and radiation detectors. Although the water contained high levels of radon, a Mount St. Mary's University study posited that the health risk from radiation was probably low relative to the other causes of mortality at the time. The water also contained levels of arsenic, lead (due to the fact that it had a lead spout), vanadium, and uranium that pose a health risk.

Even if the over-night storage activated the water a little, it's still basically just slowly poisoning your body with radioisotopes rather than making a Doctor Doom death water spigot.

Also, you know, heavy metal poisoning

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