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Can I lick it?

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.

    Science. 💙

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sodium reacts violently in water
      Chlorine was used in mustard gas
      Sodium chloride : I make the soup too salty

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    • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      swim in it all day

      If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and cured like a piece of beef jerky?

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      • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        (Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky

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      • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If it’s anything like pool salt, probably not. I have a neighbor who uses pool salt, and I feel like I come out less shriveled (in my fingers of course 😏) than if it were chlorine water.

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      • Geobloke@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ask RFK Jr

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “minimal”

      Tell that to my dad’s high blood pressure

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you eat salt all day its going to have some quite serious health effects. Traces of it are tasty but that is about the limit.

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      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fast…

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  • pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This diagram is way way way too conservative with the “see you on the other side” classification. To name a few: fluorine will literally make you catch fire instantly (if there’s more of it, you will basically get burned to a crisp before you can even blink), caesium will violently react with water in your mouth and produce so much hydrogen and heat, the whole mixture will instantly explode (in fact, this will not only be a usual, fire-like explosion, it will in addition to that be a so-called Coulomb explosion, which makes the situation even worse)

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!

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  • PaulBunyan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Being colorblind sucks

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    • waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It just means you can lick them all

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Superpowers!

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    • not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      can you see these? 🤔

      Image Image Image Image

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I love that the colour blind compatible version to just incompetentible to everyone else.

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      • 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh wow! I’d give you Lemmy gold if I could 🥇

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly.

      They could very easily just keep the color for color seeing people, and then add a simple pattern in the background.

      Like maybe diagonal lines on one, wavy horizontal lines in another, small dots in another, etc.

      Just pretend you are taking a black and white picture or making a black and white copy on an old copy machine. Can you still interpret the day afterwards? If yes, then you did it right.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What you’re supposed to do with this stuff is design it in grayscale first, conveying information through shading, and then just add colour afterwards while maintaining the shade.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t let a stupid chart tell you what you can and can’t lick.

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  • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪

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    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Collider? I barely know her!

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      • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        …then they built the super collider.

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    • teft@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

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      • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You have activated my trap card!

        You see, I was waiting for someone to bring up head-in-particle-collider-soviet-man only to raise you a different less known Vietnamese physicist who stuck his hands there instead!

        there’s an ok Kyle Hill video about it if you’re interested (:

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s what she said.

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  • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why isn’t one of those responses

    “Yes, you can!” ?

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because “Sure, go for it” is just that worded another way.

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      • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Listen to more music, bro.

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      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uV8TGjaGU

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  • whome@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m slightly infuriated that green doesn’t say: yes, you can!

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can we edit it?!

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      • Rev3rze@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, go for it.

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  • grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can absolutely lick lead once without any noticeable consequences. You need to be living in constant interaction with lead to get poisoning.

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The best part is that if you do it enough you will forget what the problem is and an continue to lick lead.

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    • petersr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would you rather lick Uranium?

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Damn, so close, put “us” in there and I’d be licking Uranus.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Go ahead and lick pure oxygen. Nothing wrong with that, sure.

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    • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You know O2 is pure oxygen right? Unless we’re getting into the technicality of if things in there gaseous forms can be licked it’s safe.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i think gasses can be licked, for example - if i put menthol shards into hot cup of water, i can definitely feel it on my tongue if i lick the air above the cup. therefore, lickable

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Get a bottle of pure oxygen and open it over a tongue-simulator¹ to see what happens.

        People usually use a hot-dog. But with oxygen, even a piece of wood is close enough.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    • Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure
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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, of it’s possible to have a normal licking experience with something that’s gaseous at room temperature, it’s not going to go well if you do lick it.

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  • Tower@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know, I’m surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OH BOI, HERE I GO LICKING RADIOACTIVE CARBON ISOTOPES AGAIN!

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  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what I get from this: You can probably just lick it. Odds are in your favor

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When in doubt, lick it.

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      • ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I follow the same rule with my wife.

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      • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        When a problem comes along, you must lick it Before the cream sets out too long, you must lick it When something’s going wrong, you must lick it

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  • teft@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I want to meet the motherfucker bold enough to lick cesium.

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think you’d be licking much of anything after that. It’s the one at 10 seconds in the clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNsIaSbFdg

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some of those in the actinoid [sic] series are gonna be really difficult to lick simply because of how unbelievably short their half-life is, or those such as mendelevium, that require you to either have access to (and in other cases even have your head inside of) a linear particle collider.

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  • SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For the tactile learners out there!

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  • AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The most useful chart 😅

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  • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll take a pint of the purple stuff to go, please

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jokes on you, it’ll decay before you reach the car.

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      • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        thanks, I’ll take it all to stay then

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lick mercury? Plenty of people carry lumps of it right in their teeth, 24/7.

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I responded similarly when I saw this posted before. Yes, mercury can be very toxic if it gets into your blood, but the chances of that happening from a lick are astonishingly small.

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      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To my understanding, organic compounds are where the real danger is with mercury.

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    • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Technically they’re amalgams with silver or other metals. Different properties and such.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    See, absolutely no order to the periodic table. Utterly useless.

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    • Hackworth@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

      The spiral’s more fun, anyway.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

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  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Titanium should not be on a higher danger level than lead.

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    • dmention7@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s Thallium (Tl). Titanium (Ti) is a happy shade of green.

      (I’m only replying because I thought that same thing at first glance)

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      • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah thanks.

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      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Titanium (Ti) is a happy shade of green.

        And I would certainly hope so. You can buy eating utensils made from titanium.

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  • napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Licks liquid Nitrogen

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Licking hydrogen is safe? Licks the sun

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If chemistry was spearheaded by goats

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  • renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    licking uranium is only "maybe not the best idea"?

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Compared to some of the others it’s pretty low in radioactivity (isotope dependent)

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Uranium is a toxic metal, even when completely disregarding its radioactivity

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  • UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes you can! …well I’m gone!

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Missed opportunity for sure!

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  • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    PlumBum is my favorite flavor.

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Technically you can lick anything. You just won’t be around for long if you lick some of them.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And none of the answer say that you can’t. Some of them just say that you shouldn’t.

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  • koper@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Flourine should be the darkest purple. Injesting or inhaling any amount is serious bad news.

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  • Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Radon should be yellow. You don’t want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but it’s still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just like how lithium should be red.

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.

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