My lead sandwich is calling to me
Mmm Pb&J.
They’re all lickable, it’s just that some you can only lick once.
Some can be licked multiple times, but may cause various degrees of pain and suffering.
Ah, a modest variation of the mushroom forager’s creed
Please don’t lick elemental hydrogen.
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you do?
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.
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.
What would cause the shift in pH? The atomic hydrogen would rip off H· radicals, not H^+ ions.
It would be more likely a secondary or tertiary effect. That is, H• radicals ripped away from their parent molecules would leave •OH, •R, and •RNH radicals. These are unstable and highly reactive, “desiring” to have that stable electron configuration. Likely, this will result in elections being shifted to bring in more stable species, like OH-. Overall, we’re looking at effectively a deprotonation of the saliva, with extra intermediary steps to stabilize the radicals.
Interesting. Given that H• is a neutral species, what would cause the preference for the creation of stable negative species (freeing up H+) over the creation of stable positive species (freeing up OH-)?
That’s hilarious because me and my brother licked lead fishing weights for fun as a child. It’s probably why I’m retarded.
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.
Better, but still a few issues.
Promethium, radium, curium, and Californium are all radioactive enough to cause rectal damage. Conversely, I don’t think phosphorus (black or red) or selenium are reactive enough to cause much harm.
Thank you for your contributions to this
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!
Gallium would be an interesting suppository.
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.
Instructions unclear for isotopes
What if I want to lick U-235?
Licks calcium one time
I dunno, if that gasses are in a state where they’re able to be licked, they’d mess you up pretty bad
Yes you can!
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
I’d bump up cesium, rubidium, and probably potassium to “please reconsider”, as I would not want to stand near you
I would avoid licking zinc. It’s a necessary nutrient but it doesn’t take much to me your stomach up.
But Lead tastes so good!
I wonder what metallic Sodium tastes like…
It tastes like pain.
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.)
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…
Sodium’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 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.
CodySlab swallowed it
