That’s hilarious because me and my brother licked lead fishing weights for fun as a child. It’s probably why I’m retarded.
Can I lick it?
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Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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 6 months ago
Thanks Sheldon, there are a bunch wrong. Feel free to go crazy with it.
olutukko@lemmy.world 6 months ago
awesome contribution
multifariace@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A nobel prize would be given to a lot more of those. Especially those naturally brittle or liquid.
Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months 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 6 months ago
Magnificent!
brian@lemmy.ml 6 months 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 6 months ago
Depending on the quantity and the leidenfrost effect, you might be fine
AppleMango@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One could say you are licking gasses right now
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Please don’t lick elemental hydrogen.
thegreenguy@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you do?
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months 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 6 months 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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A decent chunk of these are “how would you even?” and a few others are “you’re doing it right now.”
lledrtx@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lithium is only yellow??
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Uranium is only yellow for some reason
SkidFace@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Depleted uranium is probably relatively safe to lick.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d bump up cesium, rubidium, and probably potassium to “please reconsider”, as I would not want to stand near you
mathterdark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can I lick it?
Green - yes, you can!
Yellow, Red, Purple - no, you can’t!
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Purple - I don’t think it’s possible to do that.
deus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re all lickable, it’s just that some you can only lick once.
undercrust@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Ah, the mushroom forager’s creed
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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 6 months ago
Some can be licked multiple times, but may cause various degrees of pain and suffering.
mlg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Instructions unclear for isotopes
What if I want to lick U-235?
ursakhiin@beehaw.org 6 months ago
My lead sandwich is calling to me
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I dunno, if that gasses are in a state where they’re able to be licked, they’d mess you up pretty bad
Emmie@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I always wanted to play with bromine. It looks so cool
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I’m gonna lick Ununennium and you can’t stop me
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 months ago
laughs in compound
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
You can’t lick Titanium?
groats_survivor@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Haha I got deceived by l impersonating I (i) again
Bademantel@feddit.de 6 months ago
Titanium (22) is save to lick. Enjoy!
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It is so safe to lick that it is used in dental and bone implants! Very lickable element.
profxavier01@mastodon.social 6 months ago
@fossilesque This table is not appropriate for superman
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Superman’s weakness was kryptonite not krypton, easily confused.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
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!
Allero@lemmy.today 6 months ago
One is bad in one way and the other is bad in the opposite way.
Neutralize!
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Remind your cousin Becky about this when she starts going on about mercury compounds in vaccines
randomthin2332@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is like the nile red videos where hes like “plastic gloves are essentially grape fruit” and then proceeds to make it.