I wanted to tell a joke here, but all the good jokes argon.
That was such a noble thing to admit.
it didnt get a reaction out of me
You could say you were inert to my attempt at humor.
The original joke was pure Gold, but these later ones are just Boron me
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I was going to tell a sodium joke, but Na.
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!
Remind your cousin Becky about this when she starts going on about mercury compounds in vaccines
This is like the nile red videos where hes like “plastic gloves are essentially grape fruit” and then proceeds to make it.
Lithium, Sodium etc. need to be upped to “please reconsider.” Calcium and all the lanthanides are also metals I would not advise licking because theyre very reactive. Promethium is especially dangerous due to its radioactivity with its longest lived isotope having a half life of around 17 years. So not only is it reactive, youd die to the radiation too.
Lithium is just gonna be a little fizzy like pop rocks. No explosions, thankfully. The LiOH produced would not be fun for you, but probably won’t hurt anyone else.
Lithium salts are used to treat bipolar. The metal isnt just reacting with the water on your tongue to create a very strong base (and lots of heat), you are also going to be ingesting that Lithium (as a lithium soap as it reacts with oils and fats) which can have different (unpleasant) effects on you depending on how much was ingested. If your kidney function is impaired, it gets worse.
Please don’t lick elemental hydrogen.
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you do?
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.
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.
I’d bump up cesium, rubidium, and probably potassium to “please reconsider”, as I would not want to stand near you
A decent chunk of these are “how would you even?” and a few others are “you’re doing it right now.”
Yes you can!
But Lead tastes so good!
I wonder what metallic Sodium tastes like…
It tastes like pain.
It tastes like hot hydrogen gas (that will quickly mix with oxygen and taste like superheated steam).
If that doesn’t get ya, it would taste like sodium hydroxide, and also soap. (The soap is from the hydroxide turning the fats in your cells into soap.)
Lithium is only yellow??
It’s literally medicine in small doses
Those are lithium compounds and not elemental lithium?
Good question
Instructions unclear for isotopes
What if I want to lick U-235?
Can I lick it?
Green - yes, you can!
Yellow, Red, Purple - no, you can’t!
I think yellow is actually fine - a lick is 3 seconds of contact maximum and you’re not sucking on it or ingesting it…
Lithium’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 U235 would probably do some lasting damage just by being near it, but licking a small piece of U238 is more than likely fine so long as it’s solid and not dust
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.
Purple - I don’t think it’s possible to do that.
They’re all lickable, it’s just that some you can only lick once.
I think licking pure uranium is worse for your health than licking pure chlorine gas
I think the assumption with the chlorine is that you end up inhaling it and dying fairly quickly. Licking uranium isn’t a great idea, but you might not ever have noticable effects, even long term, if very little comes off onto your tongue. I know people who have accidently tasted plutonium in solution.
I would avoid licking zinc. It’s a necessary nutrient but it doesn’t take much to mess your stomach up.
I always wanted to play with bromine. It looks so cool.
Why all the coolest things have to be toxic 😞 (broad life wisdom statement)
