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Taste of minerals

Never lick unknown minerals as there are many toxic minerals. Never swallow saliva after licking, and rinse a mouth well.

The following taste of minerals are known: Saline (Salty), Alkaline, Sour, Bitter, Astringent, Cooling.

• Alum-(K) (Astringent)
• Alunogen (Sour)
• Borax (Alkaline)
• Boussingaultite (Astringent, Saline)
• Coquimbite (Astringent)
• Halite (Saline)
• Melanterite (Bitter)
• Mirabilite (Cooling)
• Misenite (Sour, Bitter)
• Nitratine (Cooling)
• Paracoquimbite (Astringent)
• Retgersite (Bitter)
• Römerite (Romerite) (Saline)
• Rozenite (Astringent)
• Salammoniac (Saline)
• Sassolite (Saline, Bitter)
• Sylvite (Saline, Bitter)