Since the green isn’t labelled “yes you can” I stopped reading…
that yellow and that green are problematically close
From my elementary knowledge of chemistry:
I had to go looking for Mercury and Lead and sure enough they look about right.
Column 1 reacts with water so you bet that’ll hurt. Hydrogen needs a boost to start reacting with water so no naked flame is recommended.
Anything in column 7 are desperate to rip electrons away from molecules so yes, permanent damage to your tongue and mouth.
Uranium is alright if you lick it once. A guy ate uranium cake once on TV.
The ‘Please reconsider’ lot seem to be a good way to die a horrible death by radiation.
Tc I believe is technetium which is radioactive and emits gamma rays, perhaps not soluable so stays in your body and you become gamma-man.
Beryllium is mostly only toxic when you breathe it in (there’s even a special disease you get from it), but as a solid, it’s pretty safe afaik.
Not that I recommend it.
Licking bismuth would be very very very very very bad
Listen to this guy. He’s serious bismuth
Mfer I’ll go lick my rainbow Lovecraftian City looking rocks right now to spite you
Bismuth bangers 4 lyfe
Why? Bismuth is pretty harmless from what I can find. It’s not great but it’s way better than lead (which it replaced in a lot of applications). Based on what I read, bismuth probably wouldn’t hurt you if you gave it a lick.
Are you thinking of benzene?
i’m not a chemist but is this licking the most common molecule form or the atomic variety
O₂ is safe but i don’t think O is
I think it’s framed in the context of: “How dangerous would a single molecule be to a human?”. In that context, I would say
Ois safe, only because our body naturally destroys the radical oxygen molecules every day that we create with our anti-oxidants.True, in a larger quantity than our body can handle, it’s extremely toxic; but a single molecule would probably not be too bad.
But I do agree, it shouldn’t be Green. It should be Yellow at least.
Needs a “how fast can you move your tongue?” label for the unstable elements.
“Please, tell me how!”
Is it really that bad to lick something that disappears after nanoseconds?
It doesn’t disappear, it becomes a different element.
Well, yeah. I guess it depends on into what they transform.
Lol. I meant to accomplish the lick, in the first place.
I have no real sense of the likely consequences, other than “probably not great”.
My life long dream is to lick a block of Berylium and see what it tastes like. Are you SURE this chart is accurate?
Mid at best. There’s a lot of stuff you don’t want anywhere near your mouth on there.
I mean, technically you can lick any of them…
Can you, though? Can you lick a gas? Am I licking the atmosphere when I stick my tongue out?
Plenty of them are also so rare that there isn’t enough of them to form any lickable matter; solid, liquid or gaseous.
Some have such an incredibly short half-life, you cannot lick it before it decays into something else.
This really feels like we’re going to descend into an “is water wet”-style debate. Those are always fun.
I think I’d still consider it a lick even if you just contact one atom of a substance to your tongue. You could even fire it at your tongue with the LHC and I’d still be willing to go along with calling that a lick, using the term very loosely.
I’m less sure on the gas, but fuck it, sure, sticking your tongue into a gas can be a lick between friends. Alternately you could condense/freeze it and lick that form, but that might be worse.
There’s no getting away from the idea that it would be very difficult to lick an atom with sub-millisecond half life. Unless… you create it already inside your tongue! I’m sure we could do that somehow. Probably involving magnets.
Yes you can lick a gas. Have you ever tasted a fart?
(Once)
Too distracted by the misspelling in the title
you can always answer how likable they are?
I’m no chemist but - can you lick a gas?
Edit: pick
Define “lick”.
Same concern. It’s even arguable you can only lick solids (and lap liquids). This would make hydrogen a Must Not Lick, for example, if we could only consider solid forms.
Just freeze them
If you lick anything at minus 200, you’re going to have a bad time.
You can lick liquid nitrogen, that’s pretty close
Can you really?
You’ve never seen the trick where you put a small amount of liquid nitrogen in your mouth to demonstrate… science, IDK something to do with lederhosen?
Don’t swallow it though, then you’ll get a perforated stomach.
That was my schoolmate…
Oh yeah just lick the carbon. It’s probably fine.
Have you never licked a diamond before? You’re missing out.
It is. Activated carbon is used to treat diarrhoea, you basically swallow a chunk of carbon that absorbs any moisture it comes across
Not moisture but reactive molecules. (I mean, many forms probably do still absorb a good bit but) I forgot the exact chemistry but “activated” means chemically reactive. It binds with all sorts of reactive molecules, like toxins and many other things.
Don’t lick carbon nano tubes or buckyball. Also in general carbon powder can be a particulate inhalation issue.
The table is about licking specifically. It’s not a breathability table. Just so that is clear.
I assume if it’s getting anywhere near your mouth you’d also be breathing it but aside from that, ingestion is also a nogo.
Activated carbon is also used in water treatment to remove taste/odours and many organic pollutants.
“organic pollutants” are made of carbon too
Diarrhea is also mostly carbon.
By that logic you could argue that you’re always licking carbon since your tongue has a lot of carbon in it. But I think the carbon has to be pure for it to count. If it’s in a compound molecule it’s void
The carbon being pure is not the basis for my joke
Tastes like a campfire.
Elemental mercury isn’t very bioavailable so licking the surface of a pool of mercury isn’t going to hurt you much if at all. (Assuming you just do it once). Plus the density of mercury is going make it hard for you to slurp up a significant quantity the stuff anyway.
If you want to know about the horrible potential for mercury to mess you up look for stories about dimethyl mercury exposure. Its the fat soluble varieties that give mercury it’s reputation.
The story of the professor who was studying dimethyl mercury is terrifying
:( oh no now I must search for it
Chubbyemus take on it was pretty good
Ahh good old chubbyemu. I did read it from Wikipedia though, I found it really sad and tragic
lol You don’t need a table to tell you whether or not you should like an element. Like ‘em all! Also, whoever made the pic misspelled “like” as “lick”. jsyk.
