Comment on Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?
callyral@pawb.social 2 months ago
i’m not a chemist but is this licking the most common molecule form or the atomic variety
O₂ is safe but i don’t think O is
Comment on Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?
callyral@pawb.social 2 months ago
i’m not a chemist but is this licking the most common molecule form or the atomic variety
O₂ is safe but i don’t think O is
Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think it’s framed in the context of: “How dangerous would a single molecule be to a human?”. In that context, I would say
Ois safe, only because our body naturally destroys the radical oxygen molecules every day that we create with our anti-oxidants.True, in a larger quantity than our body can handle, it’s extremely toxic; but a single molecule would probably not be too bad.
But I do agree, it shouldn’t be Green. It should be Yellow at least.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 months ago
O would completely destroy you in lickable quantities. I think you underestimate how extremely reactive it is. Just remember that it is so reactive that it reacts with oxygen to form ozone. This is not a little byproduct in extremely small quantities all throughout the body, which is also not the O radical anyway.