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Can I lick it?

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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Hackworth@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

      The spiral’s more fun, anyway.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

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  • ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When in doubt, lick it.

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      • ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I follow the same rule with my wife.

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      • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • whome@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can we edit it?!

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      • Rev3rze@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, go for it.

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  • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes you can! …well I’m gone!

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Missed opportunity for sure!

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  • grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been told that uranium tastes just like lemon drops.

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  • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    PlumBum is my favorite flavor.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    • Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure
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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • PaulBunyan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being colorblind sucks

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      can you see these? 🤔

      Image Image Image Image

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      • 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It just means you can lick them all

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Superpowers!

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Saw this table already here.

    In no circumstances you should lick Bohr. Go lick Lead instead - it’s much safer

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • dmention7@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah thanks.

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  • napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Licks liquid Nitrogen

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Licking hydrogen is safe? Licks the sun

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why isn’t one of those responses

    “Yes, you can!” ?

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Listen to more music, bro.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If chemistry was spearheaded by goats

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  • teft@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • koper@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium

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  • Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just like how lithium should be red.

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  • Tower@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For the tactile learners out there!

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  • joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hydrogen is more likely to explode than poison me.

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