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.
if i stick my tongue out i would probably consider that as licking air, so you would just have to be submerged in that gas for a long enough time to lick it
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.
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.
Many can't be "kept" on the time scale of licking. And for some, the confirmed number of atoms ever existing is too low for any sensation or measurable radiation exposure during their violent but tiny decay. But if the particle accelerator beam, the only place they ever existed, crossed your head... we unfortunately know what happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Accident
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.
If you can get your tongue inside the machinery they use at Lawrence Livermore to create a split-second instance of some rare Earth actinide, you deserve to lick it.
Just go slow and keep it wet. It might take some time to build up your tongue strength and loosen up the opening, but I believe in you. Go forth and achieve your dreams.
If that moment of introspection concludes with you being happy with your path and current situation, then who am I to judge. Carry on with your ballonilingus and be happy.
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.
The Technical Difficulties team still does stuff together but I think the contestants realized the articles from later, better seasons all come from the Unusual Articles list, spoiling the surprise and ending Citation Needed. Also, Matt has since come out as transgender and accepts any pronouns but doesn't want to talk more about it: no wonder since (s)he's British.
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
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".
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.
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....
The chemistry of calcium is that of a typical heavy alkaline earth metal. For example, calcium spontaneously reacts with water more quickly than magnesium but less quickly than strontium to produce calcium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. It also reacts with the oxygen and nitrogen in air to form a mixture of calcium oxide and calcium nitride.[14] When finely divided, it spontaneously burns in air to produce the nitride. Bulk calcium is less reactive: it quickly forms a hydration coating in moist air, but below 30% relative humidity it may be stored indefinitely at room temperature.[15]
Because calcium reacts exothermically with water and acids, calcium metal coming into contact with bodily moisture results in severe corrosive irritation.[59] When swallowed, calcium metal has the same effect on the mouth, oesophagus, and stomach, and can be fatal.[46] However, long-term exposure is not known to have distinct adverse effects.[59]
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.
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.
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
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.
Good luck finding enough Astatine to lick. It's the rarest naturally-occurring element on earth. It's estimated there is less than 30 grams in earth's crust at any given time.
I'm glad someone listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was on the original version of this, pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.
The oxide layer forms within seconds, like aluminium and sodium (the two elements surrounding it), and even if you scraped it off and stuck it on your tongue, it isn't going to react quickly enough to do you any damage. It will probably taste slightly bitter, like licking baking soda. I have some downstairs. Shall I test it and take a video of the results?
My undergraduate institution had an undetected americium spill that turned out to be a problem. I believe they ended up providing the means for every staff member who had been in the room to be tested for pulmonary damage.
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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.
if i stick my tongue out i would probably consider that as licking air, so you would just have to be submerged in that gas for a long enough time to lick it
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
Ok who gave the goat internet access?
I ate a banana and now I have summer teeth
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!
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
Many can't be "kept" on the time scale of licking. And for some, the confirmed number of atoms ever existing is too low for any sensation or measurable radiation exposure during their violent but tiny decay. But if the particle accelerator beam, the only place they ever existed, crossed your head... we unfortunately know what happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Accident
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.
My dog running straight at me after a solid 15 at the butthole buffet.
If you can get your tongue inside the machinery they use at Lawrence Livermore to create a split-second instance of some rare Earth actinide, you deserve to lick it.
... How exactly would you lick hydrogen? Or helium for yhsy matter...
New fetish unlocked, but still hidden behind balloon sphincter.
Tounguepunching the gas sphincter, oh joy
Just go slow and keep it wet. It might take some time to build up your tongue strength and loosen up the opening, but I believe in you. Go forth and achieve your dreams.
Thanks for believing in me :D
OR
New kink unlocked
If that moment of introspection concludes with you being happy with your path and current situation, then who am I to judge. Carry on with your ballonilingus and be happy.
That's gotta be a sentence no one has ever said before.
And, dare we hope, never again
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.
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.
The Technical Difficulties team still does stuff together but I think the contestants realized the articles from later, better seasons all come from the Unusual Articles list, spoiling the surprise and ending Citation Needed. Also, Matt has since come out as transgender and accepts any pronouns but doesn't want to talk more about it: no wonder since (s)he's British.
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.
Yeah that was my standing rule until this chart threw it into question. But thanks for rehardening it
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".
It’s really funny, yesterday I saw a dude walk around with a T-shirt with exactly this periodic table and thought it was hilarious and now I find this
Did you lick him?
The periodic table is surprisingly lickable.
Coming from someone identifying as salt, that's high praise! 😁
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
The same people think sulfur is "probably okay"
Pure sulfur is unreactive with water, so I can't imagine it doing meaningful harm with just one lick.
You can lick everything, but some only one time
Can I lick it? (Yes, you can)
But Can I Kick It?
It's about whether you die before you can reach it
You can lick radium for years!
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
I have nipples, Greg. Can you lick me?
Can I? Yes. Will I?... How much you got?
Two nipples
If you find enough oganesson to lick, you should get to do 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.
Magnesium's fine, I've licked it. Held some magnesium tape in my mouth once while mixing the thermite.
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!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Kk9rderPRnE
I wouldn't advise licking calciums:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide
So.. I should lick it fast and then hide from the effects under a table?
Lick it then chug some vinegar
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.
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.
Come on, it can't be that bad if we build water pipes with it
;^)
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
I posted this a long time ago. Got sent Cody's Labs list, and it was very different. He has licked so many...
The goat
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 good version of this says "see you on the other side".
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.
How many licks to get to the center of a sodium lollipop
If you have enough saliva, just one...
Good luck finding enough Astatine to lick. It's the rarest naturally-occurring element on earth. It's estimated there is less than 30 grams in earth's crust at any given time.
Did anyone ever find any?
Yes, but we still don't know its bulk properties.
Gas at room temperature? Probably not a good thing to lick when it is liquid nor solid.
I'm glad someone listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was on the original version of this, pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.
If it's got a nice oxide layer on the outside, fine. Otherwise it's fairly reactive.
The oxide layer forms within seconds, like aluminium and sodium (the two elements surrounding it), and even if you scraped it off and stuck it on your tongue, it isn't going to react quickly enough to do you any damage. It will probably taste slightly bitter, like licking baking soda. I have some downstairs. Shall I test it and take a video of the results?
😏 Are you a green element on the periodic table? Cause I wanna lick you
I'm wearing that picture on a shirt right now!
O₂ or O₃? How about isotopes?
Yeah maybe mixing up medicines and giving 11 year old me iodine tincture to drink wasn't the best move
Do not lick Am
My undergraduate institution had an undetected americium spill that turned out to be a problem. I believe they ended up providing the means for every staff member who had been in the room to be tested for pulmonary damage.
In so far that it's such a terrible map, that it's not a nap at all, yes! Totally accurate.
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...
Can you lick it? Well do you have a tongue, if so then, yes, you can lick it.
Should you lick it is a better question though...