See, absolutely no order to the periodic table. Utterly useless.
Can I lick it?
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dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 day 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. 💙
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sodium reacts violently in water
Chlorine was used in mustard gas
Sodium chloride : I make the soup too saltyBootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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?
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
(Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Geobloke@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Ask RFK Jr
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
“minimal”
Tell that to my dad’s high blood pressure
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day 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.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fast…
whome@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
I’m slightly infuriated that green doesn’t say: yes, you can!
Routhinator@startrek.website 18 hours ago
Can we edit it?!
Rev3rze@feddit.nl 13 hours ago
Sure, go for it.
PaulBunyan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Being colorblind sucks
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
echodot@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
I love that the colour blind compatible version to just incompetentible to everyone else.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It just means you can lick them all
Tja@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Superpowers!
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Don’t let a stupid chart tell you what you can and can’t lick.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 7 hours 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.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Flourine should be the darkest purple. Injesting or inhaling any amount is serious bad news.
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Collider? I barely know her!
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 day ago
…then they built the super collider.
teft@piefed.world 21 hours ago
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours 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 (:
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s what she said.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
So what I get from this: You can probably just lick it. Odds are in your favor
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
When in doubt, lick it.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I follow the same rule with my wife.
Wolf@lemmy.today 12 hours 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
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
OH BOI, HERE I GO LICKING RADIOACTIVE CARBON ISOTOPES AGAIN!
BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why isn’t one of those responses
“Yes, you can!” ?
underscores@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
I’ll take a pint of the purple stuff to go, please
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Jokes on you, it’ll decay before you reach the car.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
- Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure
davidagain@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Go ahead and lick pure oxygen. Nothing wrong with that, sure.
Siethron@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 day 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
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Tower@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You know, I’m surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.
teft@piefed.world 1 day ago
I want to meet the motherfucker bold enough to lick cesium.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 20 hours 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
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 day ago
Lick mercury? Plenty of people carry lumps of it right in their teeth, 24/7.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
To my understanding, organic compounds are where the real danger is with mercury.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Technically they’re amalgams with silver or other metals. Different properties and such.
don@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.
UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes you can! …well I’m gone!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Missed opportunity for sure!
SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
For the tactile learners out there!
grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.
nebulaone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
PlumBum is my favorite flavor.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Licks liquid Nitrogen
Tja@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Licking hydrogen is safe? Licks the sun
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If chemistry was spearheaded by goats
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Titanium should not be on a higher danger level than lead.
dmention7@midwest.social 1 day 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)
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ah thanks.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
Titanium (Ti) is a happy shade of green.
And I would certainly hope so. You can buy eating utensils made from titanium.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Technically you can lick anything. You just won’t be around for long if you lick some of them.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And none of the answer say that you can’t. Some of them just say that you shouldn’t.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
licking uranium is only "maybe not the best idea"?
koper@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium
AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The most useful chart 😅
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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)
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!