Comment on Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?

Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lead’s bad for you, sure, but when some of the other metals on this scale’s red might literally explode your tongue/face/head depending on sample size and saliva accumulation, i’d say yellow fits it pretty well.

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nah, metallic lead is pretty solid. Licking it doesn’t really do much. You shouldn’t ingest lead, but you don’t really ingest it by licking a piece of metal.

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  • Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same with metallic mercury. But once it evaporates…

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, when you lick mercury, you’re actually going to swallow a lot of it. Thankfully, you’ll poop most of it out, and as long as you do it once, it won’t kill you.

      But if I had to pick between licking lead or mercury, I’d go with lead.

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      • Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh yeah. I am om team lead. The problem with Mercury is the vapor that ridiculously easy methylates when heated, and then you have a nerve toxin that quite easily crosses the blood-brain barrier.

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• dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Idk, just licking it once shouldn’t do much harm, right?

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  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Given the choice between licking mercury and licking lead, 96% of respondents answered with lead.

    ~Apologies for the random percentage and quoting fictional data~

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    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      look at this shill from the big metal licking industry

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There is no identified threshold or safe level of lead in blood” [AAP 2016]

    www.atsdr.cdc.gov/…/physiological_effects.html

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    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It isn’t safe at any dose but the amount of harm from licking it once is definitely rather small. Probably safer than having a couple of alcoholic drinks or a single cigarette.

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    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a toddler and I hope to dear god there’s no lead about. She will lick anything.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The inside of your mouth is on the outside of your body and so is the rest of your digestive tract, safely (well) isolated (unless it’s permeable) from your bloodstream. As a first approximation, our bodies are toruses. Just licking something is really not much more intimate than touching something unless it’s sugar which can be taken up right there on the spot. (At least glucose can and there’s enzymes in salvia don’t ask me for details).

      All that said the Romans used lead(II) acetate as a sweetener and while definitely a bad idea, they didn’t all immediately keel over either. You’ll almost certainly be fine.

      Pure water OTOH… you’ll burn your mouth because osmotic difference tearing cell walls apart before the stuff dilutes to have a sensible amount of minerals in it. The tissue there is used to such stuff so no biggie either if you survived a too hot pizza you’ll survive water. Also, do eat that pizza to have enough minerals to replenish everything.

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