I wanted to tell a joke here, but all the good jokes argon.
That was such a noble thing to admit.
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.
One could say you are licking gasses right now
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.
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.”
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 pain.
Yes you can!
Lithium is only yellow??
It’s literally medicine in small doses
Those are lithium compounds and not elemental lithium?
Good question
They’re all lickable, it’s just that some you can only lick once.
Can I lick it?
Green - yes, you can!
Yellow, Red, Purple - no, you can’t!
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 would avoid licking zinc. It’s a necessary nutrient but it doesn’t take much to mess your stomach up.
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
