This was a team effort.

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      Indeed. So if we go with every element at STP it’s pretty boring. All the gasses just become green except flourine and there’s some minute changes. I felt this way was more interesting and would get people asking more questions.

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        All gasses except Flourine become green?
        You must have really Chad mucus membranes to deal with Chlorine and Bromine.

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      The only reason it’s red actually is because of burns and irritation to mucus membranes. It’s far less dangerous than most. So yellow would probably make more sense.

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    I’d love to see the reasoning for each element. Most of them are obvious but I’m curious about some of them.

    Are all the gasses dangerous because they’d have to be frozen to a solid? You could use them to pressurize a dildo-shaped envelope, though.

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      That’s great because this is supposed to be educational and a surprising amount of research was done (way more than anticipated). All elements are solid at STP so for the gasses that’s in the range of -200 C. Someone suggested doing a version with liquid and gas enemas but you know? I’m just not that dedicated (yet)

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        My first thought was “why is nitrogen dangerous?” but I was thinking about it at room temperature or around 20C.

        I know about decompression sickness (the bends) but I wouldn’t expect that to be a problem at 1 atmosphere. Then I stumbled upon isobaric counterdiffusion and I wondered if that could happen from pumping any pure gas into the rectum at atmospheric pressure, since it’d be at a higher partial pressure than any gas in the tissue.

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          I was informed by someone that elemental iodine is actually toxic when not in salt form. Could be true/false?

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      Here’s some interesting ones that I don’t think anyone’s asked yet so far

      The two CIA ones? Only elements with an unenriched isotope that can reach critical mass (and don’t instantly disappear). You’d need about 10 or so large dildos to muke a nuclear bomb. The anal probe and CIA disappearing is literal.

      Borat is in this diagram

      Starting with Potassium the Alkalis become basically explosive to water and get progressively more reactive. If you haven’t covered it yet this is because their valence shells get weaker the heavier you go.

      Hydrogen and Helium so far basically cannot exist in solid form at STP in any appreciable amount.

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        IMO, I’d count plutonium in the anal probe category. Enriched or not, it’s gonna raise tons of red flags.

        Buying that much uranium would probably just get your house raided by the FBI. If you told them what you were planning on doing with it, they might find it funny enough not to indict you but they probably wouldn’t let you keep it.

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          You goin to Guantanamo but almost certainly alive. If you knew how to make quantities of Curium and Calorfinium though… yeah you’re dead or not coming out of a cardboard box.

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        calcium, strontium and barium are also pretty reactive with water, and at any rate beyond hydrogen the other product (metal hydroxide) is corrosive

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      Pain must be relatively immediate to qualify for owe, my ass. Some of the yellow ones are insidious killers indeed.

      Edit: I’m making the distinction that I’ll make ones that cause relatively guaranteed death purple.

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    make nickel yellow (some people are allergic) osmium will be probably covered by layer of toxic tetroxide, cadmium and tellurium are also decently toxic

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      why is cerium yellow but other lantanides green, technetium is cheaper than you think (fission product) but it’s also radioactive

      plutonium and americium, and maybe uranium also should be blue, CIA would anal probe you for less

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        You’re right, wikipedia prices are way outdated. Unenriched isotopes aren’t blue 'cause I’m assuming they’d let you live.

        Edit: I couldn’t find the reason for that, someone just told me to make it yellow. Back to green it goes.

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    Those lanthanides… are we not terming a lethal radiation dose as rectal damage?? Or are you assuming an ideal isotope?

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      I think the whole lanthanide row could use a review by an “expert”. Sparse information on relative toxicity and relative radiated energy and immediate effects on mucus membranes. Someone still in school ask their prof and show them this diagram.

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      Right. Most stable isotope. Note that the green still says ‘probably’… all bets are off.

      I know it’s totally not obvious but Rektal damage was meme for “you would probably die”. Pretty sure 90% of these cause rectal damage.

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    Missing a few more "hello there"s, unless this is what floats your boat:

    a 12in diameter, 2m long Crystal of silicon (not silicone), made for semiconductor manufacturing

    (Human for scale)