Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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I’ve been told that uranium tastes just like lemon drops.
Saw this table already here.
In no circumstances you should lick Bohr. Go lick Lead instead - it's much safer
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. 💙
If you eat salt all day its going to have some quite serious health effects. Traces of it are tasty but that is about the limit.
Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fast...
Can't wait for bionic kidneys to be an option that allow drinking sea water
Sodium reacts violently in water
Chlorine was used in mustard gas
Sodium chloride : I make the soup too salty (yuckyCat.jpg)
“minimal”
Tell that to my dad’s high blood pressure
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It's never occurred to me that I can lick neon
Just ask Rocky to make you some neononite. If they can make xenonite, I don't see why they couldn't do neonite.
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Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪
That’s what she said.
Some of those in the actinoid [sic] series are gonna be really difficult to lick simply because of how unbelievably short their half-life is, or those such as mendelevium, that require you to either have access to (and in other cases even have your head inside of) a linear particle collider.
You know, I'm surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.