See, absolutely no order to the periodic table. Utterly useless.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?
Flourine should be the darkest purple. Injesting or inhaling any amount is serious bad news.
So what I get from this: You can probably just lick it. Odds are in your favor
When in doubt, lick it.
I follow the same rule with my wife.
When a problem comes along, you must lick it
Before the cream sets out too long, you must lick it
When something's going wrong, you must lick it
I'm slightly infuriated that green doesn't say: yes, you can!
Can we edit it?!
Sure, go for it.
OH BOI, HERE I GO LICKING RADIOACTIVE CARBON ISOTOPES AGAIN!
This diagram is way way way too conservative with the "see you on the other side" classification. To name a few: fluorine will literally make you catch fire instantly (if there's more of it, you will basically get burned to a crisp before you can even blink), caesium will violently react with water in your mouth and produce so much hydrogen and heat, the whole mixture will instantly explode (in fact, this will not only be a usual, fire-like explosion, it will in addition to that be a so-called Coulomb explosion, which makes the situation even worse)
I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!
I'll take a pint of the purple stuff to go, please
Jokes on you, it'll decay before you reach the car.
thanks, I'll take it all to stay then
Being colorblind sucks
Don't let a stupid chart tell you what you can and can't lick.
can you see these? 🤔
I love that the colour blind compatible version to just incompetentible to everyone else.
It just means you can lick them all
Superpowers!
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I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.
Science. 💙
Sodium reacts violently in water
Chlorine was used in mustard gas
Sodium chloride : I make the soup too salty (yuckyCat.jpg)
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swim in it all day
If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and start to turn cured like beef jerky?
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It's never occurred to me that I can lick neon
Can you lick a gas? Licking liquid neon is very unwise.
Then lick solid neon, duh
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Licking Lead is only "not a great idea?" I think it's squarely in the "Please don't do that" territory.
You can absolutely lick lead once without any noticeable consequences. You need to be living in constant interaction with lead to get poisoning.
The best part is that if you do it enough you will forget what the problem is and an continue to lick lead.
Would you rather lick Uranium?
Damn, so close, put "us" in there and I'd be licking Uranus.
Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪
You have activated my trap card!
You see, I was waiting for someone to bring up head-in-particle-collider-soviet-man only to raise you a different less known Vietnamese physicist who stuck his hands there instead!
there's an ok Kyle Hill video about it if you're interested (:
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