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I would have loved this in school.
I LOVE the “you are here”
Everything that isn’t green should be ‘definitely not’ and several green ones are questionable
The particular form the element is in also matters a lot.
Take helium, for example. Is it really possible to ‘lick’ a gas? I’d say it’s not. You could lick liquid helium, though … and you really shouldn’t, unless you enjoy severe frostbite on your tongue.
What? No. The Leidenfrost effect would apply. You could pour a few milliliters of liquid helium over your tongue and it would boil on contact. You just need to make sure to minimize total contact time.
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.
Because everything exists in Europe :-D
not everything. Just Licktenstein.
Well done!
Gonna have to vet the Blarney Stone before I lick it. Could be made out of anything.
You can totally lick Sodium! Its natures poprocks!
In theory, if you dry enough your tongue, you can lick sodium, i wouldn’t keep it on my tongue longer tha 0.5s tho
well, i wouldn’t keep it on my tongue at all tbf
I ate a banana and now I have summer teeth
Some of the purple ones have a time limit to lick them before you die that starts once you enter the room they are kept. You’ll still die after licking them, but you would at least have licked it if you’re quick.
So those are “yes, but hurry”?
jots down in notebook
You can lick everything, but some only one time
Can I lick it? (Yes, you can)
It’s about whether you die before you can reach it
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.
The periodic table is surprisingly lickable.
Coming from someone identifying as salt, that’s high praise! 😁
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’ve just licked some hydrogen
You dirty gasophile
If lead is “maybe not a good idea”, the rest of these must be really bad ideas. I like that there’s still 2 more levels above lead. I assume the second level just explodes or vaporises you instantly or something.
Come on, it can’t be that bad if we build water pipes with it
;^)
Licking lead once is completely fine, just don’t make a habit of it
Some of these would explode on contact with your tongue, yes.
And from what I can see, many of them are only rated “you really shouldn’t”. Which leads me to consider what the next step up in severity could possibly be.
Your own flesh burns yourself to death.
Admittedly unpleasant.
Na: bad. Cl: bad. NaCl: amazing!
Licking calcium is a bad idea (it reacts with water). Licking phosphorus is really dependent on its form. Red phosphorus is okay, white phosphorus is a painful death.
Licking calcium is fine?
I guess if you’re okay with the nasty burn…
Won’t kill you is this tables version of fine.
In that case, sodium and potassium should be fine too
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.
thank you for my first guffaw of the week
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.
I wouldn’t lick lead as a hobby, but a quick one wouldn’t be the end of things.
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
Lead lolly, yellow lolly
This is a joke by Tom Scott in one of the best Citation Needed episodes.
The long-lived isotopes of uranium are about as dangerous as lead, actually: heavy metal poisoning is the overwhelming concern.
