Everything that isn’t green should be ‘definitely not’ and several green ones are questionable
Chat, is this accurate?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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luthis@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The particular form the element is in also matters a lot.
Take helium, for example. Is it really possible to ‘lick’ a gas? I’d say it’s not. You could lick liquid helium, though … and you really shouldn’t, unless you enjoy severe frostbite on your tongue.
snarkysadierose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
if i stick my tongue out i would probably consider that as licking air, so you would just have to be submerged in that gas for a long enough time to lick it
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What? No. The Leidenfrost effect would apply. You could pour a few milliliters of liquid helium over your tongue and it would boil on contact. You just need to make sure to minimize total contact time.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s 100% accurate. But just in case, could you have the map on you when you go around licking things? The resultant news article will be way funnier that way.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sure! I’ll keep that in mind for my next lickpacking tour across Europe.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gonna have to vet the Blarney Stone before I lick it. Could be made out of anything.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Because everything exists in Europe :-D
neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can totally lick Sodium! Its natures poprocks!
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
In theory, if you dry enough your tongue, you can lick sodium, i wouldn’t keep it on my tonguenlonger tha 0.5s tho
0ops@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Ok who gave the goat internet access?
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I ate a banana and now I have summer teeth
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Na: bad. Cl: bad. NaCl: amazing!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Some of the purple ones have a time limit to lick them before you die that starts once you enter the room they are kept.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
So those are “yes, but hurry”?
jots down in notebook
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Many can’t be “kept” on the time scale of licking. And for some, the confirmed number of atoms ever existing is too low for any sensation or measurable radiation exposure during their violent but tiny decay.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pshh. You can lick any of them once.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oganesson has a half-life of about 0.7 ms and is excruciatingly difficult to synthesize in a way that even lasts on the order of milliseconds. The beam it’s created in is sent to a semiconductor detector. You’d be stretching the definition of “lick” very heavily if you could even convolute a way to make it land on the human tongue.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just point the beam at their tongue instead of the duperwhatsit detector. Bam: Licked.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You can lick everything, but some only one time
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Can I lick it? (Yes, you can)
Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s about whether you die before you can reach it
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You can lick radium for years!
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you can get your tongue inside the machinery they use at Lawrence Livermore to create a split-second instance of some rare Earth actinide, you deserve to lick it.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Every element can be licked. Some just once.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
… How exactly would you lick hydrogen? Or helium for yhsy matter…
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
- Fill a balloon with the gas
- Stick your tongue in the balloon sphincter
- Wiggle your tongue
- Reconsider the decisions you’ve made that led your life to this point
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Nobody said it has to be at room temperature, right?
(Also, does it count as “licking” if you spread some gas over your tongue?)
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Okay if you think licking lead and uranium is maybe not a good idea then I think you need to reevaluate your decision making skills.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t lick lead as a hobby, but a quick one wouldn’t be the end of things.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
So you’re saying that it’s a GREAT idea?
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
You know what, sure, why the hell not. I’ll see you on the Darwin Awards lol
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Lead lolly, yellow lolly
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I appreciate what you are trying to share, so this is just me venting.
I hate you tube!
Having to sign in is annoying. Having the absolute LIE that it has anything to do with protecting the community is infuriating.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Thank you, I came here to see if it was at least somewhat safe to lick uranium, I don’t have access to it but if I ever did I wouldve tried because that sounds like a badass story to tell at a bar/party
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The long-lived isotopes of uranium are about as dangerous as lead, actually: heavy metal poisoning is the overwhelming concern.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The periodic table is surprisingly lickable.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Coming from someone identifying as salt, that’s high praise! 😁
Juviz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s really funny, yesterday I saw a dude walk around with a T-shirt with exactly this periodic table and thought it was hilarious and now I find this
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Did you lick him?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Licking calcium is fine?
I guess if you’re okay with the nasty burn…
Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Won’t kill you is this tables version of fine.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In that case, sodium and potassium should be fine too
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The same people think sulfur is “probably okay”
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pure sulfur is unreactive with water, so I can’t imagine it doing meaningful harm with just one lick.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
If lead is “maybe not a good idea”, the rest of these must be really bad ideas. I like that there’s still 2 more levels above lead. I assume the second level just explodes or vaporises you instantly or something.
BitUnWise@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Licking lead once is completely fine, just don’t make a habit of it
GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Come on, it can't be that bad if we build water pipes with it
;^)
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Some of these would explode on contact with your tongue, yes.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
And from what I can see, many of them are only rated “you really shouldn’t”.
Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Solid lead isn’t really that dangerous. Like with a lot of other toxins, it’s mostly only dangerous when ingested or inhaled. Licking a block or sheet of lead would cause a negligible amount of lead consumption.
While I’m not saying it was a great idea or anything, they used to make children’s toys out of cast lead, and as long as little Timmy didn’t bite his toy soldier’s head off and swallow it they’re perfectly safe, even if he was sucking on it sometimes. Hell, even if he did swallow it, he’d probably pass it with no issues.
Lead is dangerous when aerosolized, like with leaded gasoline, or in powder form, like with lead paint chips, because in these forms it is more easily absorbed by the body. Depending on the location, people can have lead bullets literally inside their bodies for decades without ever suffering from heavy metal poisoning (and when heavy metal poisoning does occur, it can take years to accumulate to dangerous levels).
Same goes for lots of other stuff - plaster, fiberglass, asbestos.
Davel23@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Can you lick a gas? I would think it would need to be at least liquid, and once some of these are in a lickable state you probably wouldn't want to go ahead and do it.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I’ve just licked some hydrogen
Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You dirty gasophile
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I have nipples, Greg. Can you lick me?
Davel23@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Can I? Yes. Will I?... How much you got?
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Licking calcium is a bad idea (it reacts with water). Licking phosphorus is really dependent on its form. Red phosphorus is okay, white phosphorus is a painful death.
bryndos@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Can you lick a gas?
Or do you have to cool it down until liquid?j5y7@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My brother once farted so bad I could taste it.
waggz@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
thank you for my first guffaw of the week
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I posted this a long time ago. Got sent Cody’s Labs list, and it was very different. He has licked so many…
spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t advise licking calciums:
The chemistry of calcium is that of a typical heavy alkaline earth metal. For example, calcium spontaneously reacts with water more quickly than magnesium but less quickly than strontium to produce calcium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. It also reacts with the oxygen and nitrogen in air to form a mixture of calcium oxide and calcium nitride.[14] When finely divided, it spontaneously burns in air to produce the nitride. Bulk calcium is less reactive: it quickly forms a hydration coating in moist air, but below 30% relative humidity it may be stored indefinitely at room temperature.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium
Because of vigorous reaction of quicklime with water, quicklime causes severe irritation when inhaled or placed in contact with moist skin or eyes.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If you find enough oganesson to lick, you should get to do it
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
why is it fine to lick calcium? wouldn’t that cause sever burns?
zener_diode@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Technetium really should be purple. The isotope that you’d be most likely to get some of (used for nuclear medicine) has a half-life of about 6 hours, and is appropriately radioactive.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The good version of this says “see you on the other side”.
thousandyardstare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m wearing that picture on a shirt right now!
crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
How many licks to get to the center of a sodium lollipop
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good luck finding enough Astatine to lick. It’s the rarest naturally-occurring element on earth. It’s estimated there is less than 30 grams in earth’s crust at any given time.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
😏 Are you a green element on the periodic table, cause I wanna lick you
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gas at room temperature? Probably not a good thing to lick when it is liquid nor solid.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m glad they listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Compare XKCD.
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TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I would have loved this in school.
grranibal@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I LOVE the “you are here”