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I would have loved this in school.
You can totally lick Sodium! Its natures poprocks!
I ate a banana and now I have summer teeth
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… How exactly would you lick hydrogen? Or helium for yhsy matter…
- Fill a balloon with the gas
- Stick your tongue in the balloon sphincter
- Wiggle your tongue
- Reconsider the decisions you’ve made that led your life to this point
- Reconsider the decisions you’ve made that led your life to this point
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.
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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.
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.
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
If you find enough oganesson to lick, you should get to do it
The periodic table is surprisingly lickable.
Coming from someone identifying as salt, that’s high praise! 😁
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…
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
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 good version of this says “see you on the other side”.
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.
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?
I’m wearing that picture on a shirt right now!
