Yes you can! ...well I'm gone!
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It's never occurred to me that I can lick neon
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.
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. π
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.
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Tell that to my dadβs high blood pressure
Sodium reacts violently in water
Chlorine was used in mustard gas
Sodium chloride : I make the soup too salty (yuckyCat.jpg)
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?
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Some of those in the actinoid [sic] series are gonna be really difficult to lick simply because of how unbelievably short their half-life is, or those such as mendelevium, that require you to either have access to (and in other cases even have your head inside of) a linear particle collider.
Source please?
I honestly have no idea where this originated, but it looks like it's been everywhere, has t-shirts and posters, etc.
I watched a video from 11 hours ago by the dude who made it, well, made this version at least.
It's the exact same one on the video, something he's done for several videos.
Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night π€ͺ
Collider? I barely know her!
...And then they built the super collider.
Thank you, you've been a great audience.
Thatβs what she said.
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licking uranium is only "maybe not the best idea"?
Compared to some of the others it's pretty low in radioactivity (isotope dependent)
Uranium is a toxic metal, even when completely disregarding its radioactivity
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But Rubidium is so delicious!
The hydrogen is more likely to explode than poison me.
For the tactile learners out there!
You know, I'm surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.
Radon should be yellow. You don't want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but it's still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.
Just like how lithium should be red. Just because it's less likely to explode your face open doesn't mean that it's just "not a good idea". It immediately creates pure Lithium Hydroxide, which will immediately start saponifying your mouth, and that's assuming it doesn't immediately light on fire, like the last time I did that experiment.
I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium
Why isn't one of those responses
"Yes, you can!" ?
Because "Sure, go for it" is just that worded another way.
If chemistry was spearheaded by goats
Technically you can lick anything. You just won't be around for long if you lick some of them.
And none of the answers say that you can't. Some of them just say that you shouldn't.
Licks liquid Nitrogen
Titanium should not be on a higher danger level than lead.
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.
Lick mercury? Plenty of people carry lumps of it right in their teeth, 24/7.
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Being colorblind sucks
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.
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It just means you can lick them all
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Saw this table already here.
In no circumstances you should lick Bohr. Go lick Lead instead - it's much safer
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