Comment on Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoNah, 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.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Same with metallic mercury. But once it evaporates…
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 months 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.