We can’t lick sodium or chlorine, but combine them and you get something we literally make blocks of for the purpose of licking. What a world!
Can I lick it?
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pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Allero@lemmy.today 1 year ago
One is bad in one way and the other is bad in the opposite way.
Neutralize!
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Remind your cousin Becky about this when she starts going on about mercury compounds in vaccines
randomthin2332@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is like the nile red videos where hes like “plastic gloves are essentially grape fruit” and then proceeds to make it.
brian@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
But does this imply licking it in a “lickable” state? I have a hard time imagining licking a gas, and licking hydrogen as a liquid at -250 C or so sounds, not great.
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Depending on the quantity and the leidenfrost effect, you might be fine
AppleMango@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One could say you are licking gasses right now
Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
That’s hilarious because me and my brother licked lead fishing weights for fun as a child. It’s probably why I’m retarded.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
How is bromine “probably fine”? It should be in the rectal damage section.
Calcium should probably be in the “Ow, my ass” section.
Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Thanks Sheldon, there are a bunch wrong. Feel free to go crazy with it.
olutukko@lemmy.world 1 year ago
awesome contribution
multifariace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A nobel prize would be given to a lot more of those. Especially those naturally brittle or liquid.
Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I guess it’s only implied but any liquid is inserted as a solid - e.i. below its melting point. It’s assumed anything crumbly has a suitable binding agent.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Magnificent!
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lithium, Sodium etc. need to be upped to “please reconsider” and Calcium metal teacts with water so you definitely shouldn’t lick it either.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lithium is just gonna be a little fizzy like pop rocks. No explosions, thankfully. The LiOH produced would not be fun for you, but probably won’t hurt anyone else.
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lithium salts are used to treat bipolar. The metal isnt just reacting with the water on your tongue to create a very strong base (and lots of heat), you are also going to be ingesting that Lithium (as a lithium soap as it reacts with oils and fats) which can have different (unpleasant) effects on you depending on how much was ingested. If your kidney function is impaired, it gets worse.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Please don’t lick elemental hydrogen.
thegreenguy@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you do?
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
In the hypothetical, if one were able to lick elemental hydrogen in its atomic, rather than molecular form, it would have a few potential effects. The one that would concern me most would be its aggressive reactivity, ripping hydrogens away from anything that it could in order to achieve stability. This would potentially cause tissue damage both from the deprotonation and shift in pH.
Arcity@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Nothing, because you can have only one atom of it. Multiple will just form molecular hydrogen H2. That one hydrogen atom will aggressively rip of another hydrogen of a molecule of water for example, but it won’t be noticeable.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d bump up cesium, rubidium, and probably potassium to “please reconsider”, as I would not want to stand near you
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A decent chunk of these are “how would you even?” and a few others are “you’re doing it right now.”
PervServer@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Lick my As! You chemists can’t stop me from slobbering on every element.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The elements can defend themselves. You lick whatever you want, buddy.
plinky@hexbear.net 1 year ago
lledrtx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lithium is only yellow??
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s literally medicine in small doses
lledrtx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Those are lithium compounds and not elemental lithium?
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Uranium is only yellow for some reason
SkidFace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I fully agree with it being yellow. By far, the most common isotope of uranium is uranium-238, which is indeed radioactive, but not dangerously radioactive. In this list, lead is listed as a yellow because it can give you heavy metal poisoning. In this scenario, the uranium would cause more damage to your body by damaging it as lead would (heavy metal poisoning affecting brain, kidneys, liver, etc) before the radiation would ever have an impact on your body.
mlg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Instructions unclear for isotopes
What if I want to lick U-235?
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes you can!
Wilzax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think licking pure uranium is worse for your health than licking pure chlorine gas
Liz@midwest.social 1 year ago
I think the assumption with the chlorine is that you end up inhaling it and dying fairly quickly. Licking uranium isn’t a great idea, but you might not ever have noticable effects, even long term, if very little comes off onto your tongue. I know people who have accidently tasted plutonium in solution.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But Lead tastes so good!
I wonder what metallic Sodium tastes like…
becausechemistry@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It tastes like hot hydrogen gas (that will quickly mix with oxygen and taste like superheated steam).
If that doesn’t get ya, it would taste like sodium hydroxide, and also soap. (The soap is from the hydroxide turning the fats in your cells into soap.)
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yum!
[youtu.be/YE5mlNCRe9A?si=08Rf5xwanUJ1PUH8](it tastes like burning)
bahbah23@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It tastes like pain.
mathterdark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can I lick it?
Green - yes, you can!
Yellow, Red, Purple - no, you can’t!
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I think yellow is actually fine - a lick is 3 seconds of contact maximum and you’re not sucking on it or ingesting it…
Sodium’s the only one you’ll ingest decent quantities of and it’s just gonna taste fizzy and soapy with no real lasting damage, stuff like lead you won’t even ingest and even if you did it’d probably be fine in such low quantities, even mercury is probably ok to lick if you’re careful
That said, with the radioactive ones you need to be careful of what isotope and sample size you’re licking, so licking a huge ingot of U238 would probably do some lasting damage just by being near it, but licking a small piece of U235 is more than likely fine so long as it’s solid and not dust
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’d be careful with emitters that are primarily alpha radiation like U238. It’s easy to dismiss them because they’re fat diabeetus particles that are simple to stop, but the flip side of that is that they are nasty when they’re not stopped. They’re a big fat thing going really, really fast, and whatever they hit is going to take a lot of damage.
Maybe the saliva on your tongue will stop it? If your tongue is relatively dry, though, you could very easily get tongue cancer.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Purple - I don’t think it’s possible to do that.
deus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re all lickable, it’s just that some you can only lick once.
undercrust@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ah, the mushroom forager’s creed
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My pet peeve is when people say “everything is edible once” instead of “eatable”. No, everything is not edible once, that’s the point of the word!
Lickable though, now we’re in business.
space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Some can be licked multiple times, but may cause various degrees of pain and suffering.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
I’d say downgrade Mercury to yellow. Licking Mercury won’t hurt you as long as you hold your breath.
Having it close to your breathy parts is always not a great idea though.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d sooner lick plutonium than mercury.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
CodySlab swallow it
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I dunno, if that gasses are in a state where they’re able to be licked, they’d mess you up pretty bad
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I’m gonna lick Ununennium and you can’t stop me
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There aren’t any unun* elements on the visible table anymore; they gave them all names.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Ununennium is still hypothetical
ursakhiin@beehaw.org 1 year ago
My lead sandwich is calling to me
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Mmm Pb&J.
bahbah23@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would avoid licking zinc. It’s a necessary nutrient but it doesn’t take much to me your stomach up.
Emmie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I always wanted to play with bromine. It looks so cool
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 1 year ago
laughs in compound
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You can’t lick Titanium?
groats_survivor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s thallium (81) my dude, I had to check myself
I’m not sure if you should lick it though, id trust the chart
babyaubrey001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I did check thallium pretty toxic definitely don’t want to lick that, but gallium on the other might be ok. Plus you could probably rob a a bank with gallium. Gallium is my favorite element
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Haha I got deceived by l impersonating I (i) again
Bademantel@feddit.de 1 year ago
Titanium (22) is save to lick. Enjoy!
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It is so safe to lick that it is used in dental and bone implants! Very lickable element.
profxavier01@mastodon.social 1 year ago
@fossilesque This table is not appropriate for superman
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Superman’s weakness was kryptonite not krypton, easily confused.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wanted to tell a joke here, but all the good jokes argon.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That was such a noble thing to admit.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
it didnt get a reaction out of me
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I was going to tell a sodium joke, but Na.
UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Is that a mother fucking Warframe reference?
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yesss, someone finally caught it!