Vanadium

I got the V right.

It was a vanadium.

Yeah, is that how you pronounce it? Vandium?

Vandium, how do you pronounce

it? Vandium, I think.

Vandium? I don't know.

I...

My memory's not good.

It's an irradiated ceramic jug from the 1920s sold as a pseudoscientific miracle cure-all.

In addition to the carnotite, a bright yellow rock known for its high uranium content, the Revigator, or jator, contains a slew of chemicals, things that you might put in your bowl of chili, like arsenic, lead, and vanadium.[laughs] Which according to basic science, are all things you shouldn't even shower with, let alone drink it.

Mm-hmm.

Well, Reskie sees that as an opportunity and, and tilts the little cistern and says, "See? See all that beautiful water in there? [laughs] Perfectly harmless.