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Yeah maybe mixing up medicines and giving 11 year old me iodine tincture to drink wasn’t the best move
how can something be ‘maybe not a good idea’ on a lickability scale but also be used as a medication?
Well, you saw that uranium is colored yellow so…
Pshh. You can lick any of them once.
You really shouldn’t, though.
I can be, though, if you ask nicely…
Oganesson has a half-life of about 0.7 ms and is excruciatingly difficult to synthesize in a way that even lasts on the order of milliseconds. The beam it’s created in is sent to a semiconductor detector. You’d be stretching the definition of “lick” very heavily if you could even convolute a way to make it land on the human tongue.
Easy, just send the beam to their tongue instead of the duperwhatsit detector. Bam. Licked.
Bam. Licked.
My dog running straight at me after a solid 15 at the butthole buffet.
How many licks to get to the center of a sodium lollipop
If you have enough saliva, just one…
If you find enough oganesson to lick, you should get to do it
The periodic table is surprisingly lickable.
Coming from someone identifying as salt, that’s high praise! 😁
It’s 100% accurate. But just in case, could you have the map on you when you go around licking things? The resultant news article will be way funnier that way.
Sure! I’ll keep that in mind for my next lickpacking tour across Europe.
Gonna have to vet the Blarney Stone before I lick it. Could be made out of anything.
Because everything exists in Europe :-D
not everything. Just Licktenstein.
Well done!
Na: bad. Cl: bad. NaCl: amazing!
Technetium really should be purple. The isotope that you’d be most likely to get some of (used for nuclear medicine) has a half-life of about 6 hours, and is appropriately radioactive.
Can you lick a gas? I would think it would need to be at least liquid, and once some of these are in a lickable state you probably wouldn’t want to go ahead and do it.
I have nipples, Greg. Can you lick me?
Can I? Yes. Will I?.. How much you got?
Two nipples
I’ve just licked some hydrogen
You dirty gasophile
Can you lick a gas? Or do you have to cool it down until liquid?
My brother once farted so bad I could taste it.
why is it fine to lick calcium? wouldn’t that cause sever burns?
It would, don’t do it. There’s more than one questionable assignment on the table including magnesium right above it.
Wait, why shouldn’t you lick magnesium? I’ve done that plenty of times (for giant dumbass reasons) and I’m no worse off than before I licked it…
Most of atoms can’t be find as a pure form (metal/crystal or pair). You may have licked magnesium oxyde (MgO), but not magnesium as an explosive metal.
Ah, I see I’ve fallen for the classic ambiguity - I was assuming the vast chemistry arena we were licking things in was not a frictionless vacuum. Yes, it’s hypothetically pyrophoric with water; though it would require some prodegious amounts of slobber (or some small amount of effort) to produce that effect just by licking it - and I’m not entirely sure how well human salivary glands operate under vacuum conditions…
Yeah I guess that’s true, your salvia probably isn’t penetrating the oxide layer with enough vigor to be too much of a concern. Don’t eat it though!
Magnesium’s fine, I’ve licked it. Held some magnesium tape in my mouth once while mixing the thermite.
Compare XKCD.
I LOVE the “you are here”
I would have loved this in school.
I posted this a long time ago. Got sent Cody’s Labs list, and it was very different. He has licked so many…
Thats a lot of alkali metals to have had in your mouth. I thought they all explode/burn when in contact with water. And I am pretty sure the inside of a mouth is wet
The goat
Okay if you think licking lead and uranium is maybe not a good idea then I think you need to reevaluate your decision making skills.
So you’re saying that it’s a GREAT idea?
You know what, sure, why the hell not. I’ll see you on the Darwin Awards lol
The long-lived isotopes of uranium are about as dangerous as lead, actually: heavy metal poisoning is the overwhelming concern. Same as bismuth, which is effectively stable and incorrectly marked “Probably fine”.
I wouldn’t lick lead as a hobby, but a quick one wouldn’t be the end of things.
Lead lolly, yellow lolly
This is a joke by Tom Scott in one of the best Citation Needed episodes.
I appreciate what you are trying to share, so this is just me venting.
I hate you tube!
Having to sign in is annoying. Having the absolute LIE that it has anything to do with protecting the community is infuriating.
I try and never use youtube, then I am reminded why. Yes I know how to use the plethora of alternative front ends, but I simply dont want to play the game.
Technically, Piped is not just a frontend… How about setting up a redirect? I used to provide links to piped.video like the annoying bot but then I realized it’s decentralized and everyone using Piped probably has a redirect (or link-handling app) set up to their preferred instance.
BTW, there’s an Internet Archive mirror of the video available as a plain file or in their online player The reference is at 9:57 but the whole thing is worth it.
Thanks so much. A solution was far more then expected, thats really nice of you.
Thank you, I came here to see if it was at least somewhat safe to lick uranium, I don’t have access to it but if I ever did I wouldve tried because that sounds like a badass story to tell at a bar/party
Definitely don’t do it.
