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Can I lick it?

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Can I lick it?

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I wanted to tell a joke here, but all the good jokes argon.
- That was such a noble thing to admit.
  
  it didnt get a reaction out of me
- I was going to tell a sodium joke, but Na.
- Is that a mother fucking Warframe reference?
  
  Yesss, someone finally caught it!

We can't lick sodium or chlorine, but combine them and you get something we literally make blocks of for the purpose of licking. What a world!
- One is bad in one way and the other is bad in the opposite way.
  Neutralize!
- Remind your cousin Becky about this when she starts going on about mercury compounds in vaccines
- This is like the nile red videos where hes like "plastic gloves are essentially grape fruit" and then proceeds to make it.

But does this imply licking it in a "lickable" state? I have a hard time imagining licking a gas, and licking hydrogen as a liquid at -250 C or so sounds, not great.
- Depending on the quantity and the leidenfrost effect, you might be fine
- One could say you are licking gasses right now

That's hilarious because me and my brother licked lead fishing weights for fun as a child. It's probably why I'm retarded.
Can someone make one for suitability as dildo material?
Edit: Here it is, chumps
- How is bromine "probably fine"? It should be in the rectal damage section.
  Calcium should probably be in the "Ow, my ass" section.
  
  There are a bunch wrong. Feel free to go crazy with it.
  Edit: NEW VERSION IS UP Yay
- awesome contribution
- A nobel prize would be given to a lot more of those. Especially those naturally brittle or liquid.
  
  I guess it's only implied but any liquid is inserted as a solid - e.i. below its melting point. It's assumed anything crumbly has a suitable binding agent.
  A few of them are definitely wrong as has been pointed out to me but I'm glad we're all learning about science!
- Magnificent!

Lithium, Sodium etc. need to be upped to "please reconsider." Calcium and all the lanthanides are also metals I would not advise licking because theyre very reactive. Promethium is especially dangerous due to its radioactivity with its longest lived isotope having a half life of around 17 years. So not only is it reactive, youd die to the radiation too.
- Lithium is just gonna be a little fizzy like pop rocks. No explosions, thankfully. The LiOH produced would not be fun for you, but probably won’t hurt anyone else.
  
  Lithium salts are used to treat bipolar. The metal isnt just reacting with the water on your tongue to create a very strong base (and lots of heat), you are also going to be ingesting that Lithium (as a lithium soap as it reacts with oils and fats) which can have different (unpleasant) effects on you depending on how much was ingested. If your kidney function is impaired, it gets worse.

Please don't lick elemental hydrogen.
- Out of curiosity, what would happen if you do?
  
  In the hypothetical, if one were able to lick elemental hydrogen in its atomic, rather than molecular form, it would have a few potential effects. The one that would concern me most would be its aggressive reactivity, ripping hydrogens away from anything that it could in order to achieve stability. This would potentially cause tissue damage both from the deprotonation and shift in pH.
  
  Nothing, because you can have only one atom of it. Multiple will just form molecular hydrogen H2. That one hydrogen atom will aggressively rip of another hydrogen of a molecule of water for example, but it won't be noticeable.

I'd bump up cesium, rubidium, and probably potassium to "please reconsider", as I would not want to stand near you

A decent chunk of these are "how would you even?" and a few others are "you're doing it right now."

Lick my As! You chemists can't stop me from slobbering on every element.
- The elements can defend themselves. You lick whatever you want, buddy.

Lithium is only yellow??
- It's literally medicine in small doses
  
  Those are lithium compounds and not elemental lithium?

Yes you can!

Instructions unclear for isotopes
What if I want to lick U-235?

But Lead tastes so good!
I wonder what metallic Sodium tastes like...
- It tastes like hot hydrogen gas (that will quickly mix with oxygen and taste like superheated steam).
  If that doesn’t get ya, it would taste like sodium hydroxide, and also soap. (The soap is from the hydroxide turning the fats in your cells into soap.)
  
  Yum!
  https://youtu.be/YE5mlNCRe9A?si=08Rf5xwanUJ1PUH8
- It tastes like pain.

They're all lickable, it's just that some you can only lick once.
- Ah, a modest variation of the mushroom forager's creed
  
  My pet peeve is when people say "everything is edible once" instead of "eatable". No, everything is not edible once, that's the point of the word!
  Lickable though, now we're in business.
- Some can be licked multiple times, but may cause various degrees of pain and suffering.

Can I lick it?
Green - yes, you can!
Yellow, Red, Purple - no, you can’t!
- I think yellow is actually fine - a lick is 3 seconds of contact maximum and you're not sucking on it or ingesting it...
  Lithium's the only one you'll ingest decent quantities of and it's just gonna taste fizzy and soapy with no real lasting damage, stuff like lead you won't even ingest and even if you did it'd probably be fine in such low quantities, even mercury is probably ok to lick if you're careful
  That said, with the radioactive ones you need to be careful of what isotope and sample size you're licking, so licking a huge ingot of U235 would probably do some lasting damage just by being near it, but licking a small piece of U238 is more than likely fine so long as it's solid and not dust
  
  I'd be careful with emitters that are primarily alpha radiation like U238. It's easy to dismiss them because they're fat diabeetus particles that are simple to stop, but the flip side of that is that they are nasty when they're not stopped. They're a big fat thing going really, really fast, and whatever they hit is going to take a lot of damage.
  Maybe the saliva on your tongue will stop it? If your tongue is relatively dry, though, you could very easily get tongue cancer.
- Purple - I don't think it's possible to do that.

I think licking pure uranium is worse for your health than licking pure chlorine gas
- I think the assumption with the chlorine is that you end up inhaling it and dying fairly quickly. Licking uranium isn't a great idea, but you might not ever have noticable effects, even long term, if very little comes off onto your tongue. I know people who have accidently tasted plutonium in solution.

I dunno, if that gasses are in a state where they're able to be licked, they'd mess you up pretty bad

I'd say downgrade Mercury to yellow. Licking Mercury won't hurt you as long as you hold your breath.
Having it close to your breathy parts is always not a great idea though.
- I'd sooner lick plutonium than mercury.
  Edit: well, maybe plutonium oxide now that I think about it. Elemental plutonium is a bit too reactive
- CodySlab swallowed it

I'm gonna lick Ununennium and you can't stop me
- There aren't any unun* elements on the visible table anymore; they gave them all names.
  
  Ununennium is still hypothetical

I would avoid licking zinc. It's a necessary nutrient but it doesn't take much to mess your stomach up.

My lead sandwich is calling to me
- Mmm Pb&J.

this track really has a lot of flavor

I always wanted to play with bromine. It looks so cool.
Why all the coolest things have to be toxic 😞 (broad life wisdom statement)

You can't lick Titanium?
- That's thallium (81) my dude, I had to check myself
  I'm not sure if you should lick it though, id trust the chart
  
  I did check thallium pretty toxic definitely don't want to lick that, but gallium on the other might be ok. Plus you could probably rob a a bank with gallium. Gallium is my favorite element
  
  Haha I got deceived by l impersonating I (i) again
- Titanium (22) is save to lick. Enjoy!
  
  It is so safe to lick that it is used in dental and bone implants! Very lickable element.
  
  Ahh I saw Tl and mistake it as Ti XD

laughs in compound

@fossilesque This table is not appropriate for superman
- Superman's weakness was kryptonite not krypton, easily confused.

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