Weekly Geekly By the Gallon...And you thought gas was expensive! A single gallon of scorpion venom costs $39,000,000. King Cobra venom costs $153,000 a gallon. The perfume Chanel No.5 fetches $26,000 per gallon. Insulin costs around $9,400 a gallon. Mercury costs $3,400 per gallon. Black printer ink costs over $2,700 per gallon. Human blood comes in at $1,500 a gallon. And nail polish is upwards of $900 a gallon. Costly Substances...The Saffron flower costs $11.13 per gram or $5,040 per pound. Of course gold is an expected costly substance ringing in at $56.73 per gram. Rhodium has gold beat though at $58 per gram. Rhino Horn has both gold and rhodium beat costing $110 per gram or $50,000 per pound. Plutonium rings in at $4,000 per gram or nearly $2,000,000 per pound. The gem Taaffeite rings in at $20,000 per gram or about $4,000 per carat. Tritium used in self-illuminating EXIT signs usually found in theaters, schools, and office buildings, fetches a whopping $30,000 per gram or nearly $14,000,000 per pound.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:35:07 +0000
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