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Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.
You can absolutely lick lead once without any noticeable consequences. You need to be living in constant interaction with lead to get poisoning.
Yes you can! …well I’m gone!
Missed opportunity for sure!
PlumBum is my favorite flavor.
I’ve been told that uranium tastes just like lemon drops.
Being colorblind sucks
It just means you can lick them all
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.
Go ahead and lick pure oxygen. Nothing wrong with that, sure.
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.
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-simulator¹ to see what happens.
People usually use a hot-dog. But with oxygen, even a piece of wood is close enough.
* Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure
Why isn’t one of those responses
“Yes, you can!” ?
Because “Sure, go for it” is just that worded another way.
Listen to more music, bro.
Ah, a woosh. Thanks for the context!
I don’t 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.
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. 💙
Sodium reacts violently in water
Chlorine was used in mustard gas
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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 start to turn cured like beef jerky?
Ask RFK Jr
(Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky
“minimal”
Tell that to my dad’s high blood pressure
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 fast…
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.
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 don’t see why they couldn’t do neonite.
Titanium should not be on a higher danger level than lead.
Edit: Tl != Ti
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)
Ah thanks.
Licks liquid Nitrogen
Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪
Collider? I barely know her!
…And then they built the super collider.
Thank you, you’ve been a great audience.
That’s what she said.
