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.
The only time I taste the human flesh is when I nervously bite my cheek so it starts to have fibroma which I try to gnaw off. Nah, tastes more like clam
If itās 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 š) than if it were chlorine water.
theluckyone@discuss.online
on 16 Jul 22:41
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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.
daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl
on 16 Jul 14:08
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Source please?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
on 16 Jul 14:11
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I honestly have no idea where this originated, but it looks like itās been everywhere, has t-shirts and posters, etc.
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!
thereās an ok Kyle Hill video about it if youāre interested (:
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone
on 16 Jul 14:13
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licking uranium is only "maybe not the best idea"?
Radon should be yellow. You donāt want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but itās still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Jul 15:13
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Just like how lithium should be red. Just because itās less likely to explode your face open doesnāt mean that itās just ānot a good ideaā. It immediately creates pure Lithium Hydroxide, which will immediately start saponifying your mouth, and thatās assuming it doesnāt immediately light on fire, like the last time I did that experiment.
I donāt mean that in a shitty way either. Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest, Black on Both Sides by Mos Def and Madvillainy by Madvillain. Spin them start to finish with a decent set of headphones. Good Shit.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 16 Jul 15:45
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Technically you can lick anything. You just wonāt be around for long if you lick some of them.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Jul 16:02
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And none of the answers say that you canāt. Some of them just say that you shouldnāt.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Jul 15:49
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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
on 17 Jul 03:43
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To my understanding, organic compounds are where the real danger is with mercury.
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 data afterwards? If yes, then you did it right.
What youāre 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.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world
on 16 Jul 17:37
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Yeah, if itās possible to have a normal licking experience with something thatās gaseous at room temperature, itās not going to go well if you do lick it.
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
moopet@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Jul 20:05
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Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Jul 21:22
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This diagram is way way way too conservative with the āsee you on the other sideā classification. To name a few: fluorine will literally make you catch fire instantly (if thereās 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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The most useful chart š
It's never occurred to me that I can lick neon
Can you lick a gas? Licking liquid neon is very unwise.
Then lick solid neon, duh
You can lick xenon. Even inhale. Very fancy and very expensive. Show those nitrous plebs that you have the wealth to enjoy real chemical cuisine!
Just ask Rocky to make you some neononite. If they can make xenonite, I donāt see why they couldnāt do neonite.
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. š
āminimalā
Tell that to my dadās high blood pressure
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If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and start to turn cured like beef jerky?
(Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky
Donāt we taste more like pork?
The only time I taste the human flesh is when I nervously bite my cheek so it starts to have fibroma which I try to gnaw off. Nah, tastes more like clam
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Ask RFK Jr
If itās 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 š) than if it were chlorine water.
I was in the pool!
You are taking about water with salt. The question about submerging in a pool full of just salt.
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.
Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fastā¦
Canāt wait for bionic kidneys to be an option that allow drinking sea water
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.
Source please?
I honestly have no idea where this originated, but it looks like itās been everywhere, has t-shirts and posters, etc.
I watched a video from 11 hours ago by the dude who made it, well, made this version at least.
youtu.be/NEP9MthJXaU
Itās the exact same one on the video, something heās done for several videos.
Noble gases go from 0 to 100 real quick.
Radioactivity will do that.
Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night š¤Ŗ
Collider? I barely know her!
ā¦And then they built the super collider.
Thank you, youāve been a great audience.
Thatās what she said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
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!
thereās an ok Kyle Hill video about it if youāre interested (:
licking uranium is only "maybe not the best idea"?
Compared to some of the others itās pretty low in radioactivity (isotope dependent)
Uranium is a toxic metal, even when completely disregarding its radioactivity
So is lead, and thatās also yellow
But Rubidium is so delicious!
The hydrogen is more likely to explode than poison me.
For the tactile learners out there!
You know, Iām surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.
Radon should be yellow. You donāt want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but itās still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.
Just like how lithium should be red. Just because itās less likely to explode your face open doesnāt mean that itās just ānot a good ideaā. It immediately creates pure Lithium Hydroxide, which will immediately start saponifying your mouth, and thatās assuming it doesnāt immediately light on fire, like the last time I did that experiment.
I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium
I want to meet the motherfucker bold enough to lick cesium.
I donāt think youād be licking much of anything after that. Itās the one at 10 seconds in the clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNsIaSbFdg
Theyāre so casual about it too.
If chemistry was spearheaded by goats
Why isnāt one of those responses
āYes, you can!ā ?
Because āSure, go for itā is just that worded another way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uV8TGjaGU
Listen to more music, bro.
Ah, a woosh. Thanks for the context!
I donāt mean that in a shitty way either. Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest, Black on Both Sides by Mos Def and Madvillainy by Madvillain. Spin them start to finish with a decent set of headphones. Good Shit.
Technically you can lick anything. You just wonāt be around for long if you lick some of them.
And none of the answers say that you canāt. Some of them just say that you shouldnāt.
Licks liquid Nitrogen
Licking hydrogen is safe? Licks the sun
Titanium should not be on a higher danger level than lead.
Edit: Tl != Ti
Thatās Thallium (Tl). Titanium (Ti) is a happy shade of green.
(Iām only replying because I thought that same thing at first glance)
Ah thanks.
And I would certainly hope so. You can buy eating utensils made from titanium.
Lick mercury? Plenty of people carry lumps of it right in their teeth, 24/7.
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.
To my understanding, organic compounds are where the real danger is with mercury.
Technically theyāre amalgams with silver or other metals. Different properties and such.
Saw this table already here.
In no circumstances you should lick Bohr. Go lick Lead instead - itās much safer
Being colorblind sucks
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 data afterwards? If yes, then you did it right.
What youāre 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.
It just means you can lick them all
Superpowers!
can you see these? š¤
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/c3d6c45c-8239-4561-b9a0-6da51782c40e.webp"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/59bef18b-2b01-4ffa-a4f8-b4a72a1055f9.webp"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/f23b5681-d820-4ea8-bab3-f6c03534b21e.webp"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/e965d8b4-610f-4375-a16e-78f46b48a95c.webp">
I love that the colour blind compatible version to just incompetentible to everyone else.
Oh wow! Iād give you Lemmy gold if I could š„
Donāt let a stupid chart tell you what you can and canāt lick.
* Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure
Yeah, if itās possible to have a normal licking experience with something thatās gaseous at room temperature, itās not going to go well if you do lick it.
Go ahead and lick pure oxygen. Nothing wrong with that, sure.
You know O2 is pure oxygen right? Unless weāre getting into the technicality of if things in there gaseous forms can be licked itās safe.
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
Get a bottle of pure oxygen and open it over a tongue-simulatorĀ¹ 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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You need something else along with the oxygen to cause combustion.
The mercury and Gemini space programs had cabins consisting of pure oxygen. And those astronauts were fine.
Apollo 1 says hi.
PlumBum is my favorite flavor.
Iāve been told that uranium tastes just like lemon drops.
Licking Lead is only ānot a great idea?ā I think itās squarely in the āPlease donāt do thatā territory.
You can absolutely lick lead once without any noticeable consequences. You need to be living in constant interaction with lead to get poisoning.
The best part is that if you do it enough you will forget what the problem is and an continue to lick lead.
Would you rather lick Uranium?
Damn, so close, put āusā in there and Iād be licking Uranus.
Yes you can! ā¦well Iām gone!
Missed opportunity for sure!
Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
This diagram is way way way too conservative with the āsee you on the other sideā classification. To name a few: fluorine will literally make you catch fire instantly (if thereās 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)
I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!
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Iāll take a pint of the purple stuff to go, please
Jokes on you, itāll decay before you reach the car.
thanks, Iāll take it all to stay then
Iām slightly infuriated that green doesnāt say: yes, you can!
Can we edit it?!
Sure, go for it.
OH BOI, HERE I GO LICKING RADIOACTIVE CARBON ISOTOPES AGAIN!
So what I get from this: You can probably just lick it. Odds are in your favor
When in doubt, lick it.
When a problem comes along, you must lick it
Before the cream sets out too long, you must lick it
When somethingās going wrong, you must lick it
I follow the same rule with my wife.
Flourine should be the darkest purple. Injesting or inhaling any amount is serious bad news.
Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?
See, absolutely no order to the periodic table. Utterly useless.
<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/713cb80a-f8c2-4967-8f3d-807e7941b9aa.png">
The spiralās more fun, anyway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables