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Yes you can!
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…
Sodium’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
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.
Licks calcium one time
I dunno, if that gasses are in a state where they’re able to be licked, they’d mess you up pretty bad
Lick my As! You chemists can’t stop me from slobbering on every element.
The elements can defend themselves. You lick whatever you want, buddy.
But does this imply licking it in a “lickable” state? I have a hard time imagining licking a gas, and licking hydrogen as a liquid at -250 C or so sounds, not great.
Depending on the quantity and the leidenfrost effect, you might be fine
One could say you are licking gasses right now
Instructions unclear for isotopes
What if I want to lick U-235?
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.)
I’d bump up cesium, rubidium, and probably potassium to “please reconsider”, as I would not want to stand near you
I would avoid licking zinc. It’s a necessary nutrient but it doesn’t take much to me your stomach up.
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
K
I was going to tell a sodium joke, but Na.
Is that a mother fucking Warframe reference?
Yesss, someone finally caught it!
It wasn’t me it was my friend next to me :p
Well then, my greetings to you and your adjascent friend! :) Good catch!
I’m gonna lick Ununennium and you can’t stop me
There aren’t any unun* elements on the visible table anymore; they gave them all names.
Ununennium is still hypothetical
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!
One is bad in one way and the other is bad in the opposite way.
Neutralize!
This is like the nile red videos where hes like “plastic gloves are essentially grape fruit” and then proceeds to make it.
Remind your cousin Becky about this when she starts going on about mercury compounds in vaccines
I’d say downgrade Mercury to yellow. Licking Mercury won’t hurt you as long as you hold your breath.
Having it close to your breathy parts is always not a great idea though.
CodySlab swallowed it
I’d sooner lick plutonium than mercury.
Edit: well, maybe plutonium oxide now that I think about it.
