• Dojan
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    1201 year ago

    I wanted to tell a joke here, but all the good jokes argon.

  • pruwyben
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    1101 year ago

    We can’t lick sodium or chlorine, but combine them and you get something we literally make blocks of for the purpose of licking. What a world!

  • @brian@lemmy.ml
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    741 year ago

    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.

  • @Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    That’s hilarious because me and my brother licked lead fishing weights for fun as a child. It’s probably why I’m retarded.

    Can someone make one for suitability as dildo material?

    Edit: Here it is, chumps

  • @xkforce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • @atomicorange@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      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.

      • @xkforce@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        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.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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        191 year ago

        In the hypothetical, if one were able to lick elemental hydrogen in its atomic, rather than molecular form, it would have a few potential effects. The one that would concern me most would be its aggressive reactivity, ripping hydrogens away from anything that it could in order to achieve stability. This would potentially cause tissue damage both from the deprotonation and shift in pH.

        • threelonmusketeers
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          What would cause the shift in pH? The atomic hydrogen would rip off H· radicals, not H+ ions.

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            It would be more likely a secondary or tertiary effect. That is, H• radicals ripped away from their parent molecules would leave •OH, •R, and •RNH radicals. These are unstable and highly reactive, “desiring” to have that stable electron configuration. Likely, this will result in electrons being shifted to bring in more stable species, like OH-. Overall, we’re looking at effectively a deprotonation of the saliva, with extra intermediary steps to stabilize the radicals.

            • threelonmusketeers
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              11 year ago

              Interesting. Given that H• is a neutral species, what would cause the preference for the creation of stable negative species (freeing up H+) over the creation of stable positive species (freeing up OH-)?

              • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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                11 year ago

                Neutral as far as pH is concerned, yes. However, radicals tend to be very reactive due to their valance not being full. I am a bit rusty, TBH, as I’m about a decade and a half out of uni but, the best way to predict the products of the reaction is to look at the high-level of the equation:

                H• (excess) + H••OH + H••R + H••N-R -> H2(g) + •OH + •R + •N-R

                All of the products of the initial reaction here are radicals except for the H2 molecules. They all are going to further react to form more stable species with full valances, with possible exception being the molecular hydrogen. Because the elemental hydrogen is introduced as a radical rather than protons (H+ ions) in the solution, the final products are likely to be more negatively charged, neutral, and/or have some interesting hydrogen additions, especially in the hydrocarbons and amino acids.

                For example, there could be reactions like: R• + •OH + •N-R -> R-OH + HO-N-R

                Overall, however, the amount of free hydrogen/protons is likely to be reduced as they are effectively removed from solution as hydrogen gas.

                • threelonmusketeers
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                  110 months ago

                  Because the elemental hydrogen is introduced as a radical rather than protons (H+ ions) in the solution, the final products are likely to be more negatively charged

                  This is the part I don’t understand. If charge is conserved, why would there be a preference for a particular charge in the products?

      • Arcity 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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        111 year ago

        Nothing, because you can have only one atom of it. Multiple will just form molecular hydrogen H2. That one hydrogen atom will aggressively rip of another hydrogen of a molecule of water for example, but it won’t be noticeable.

  • @FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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    311 year ago

    I’d bump up cesium, rubidium, and probably potassium to “please reconsider”, as I would not want to stand near you

  • @ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    261 year ago

    A decent chunk of these are “how would you even?” and a few others are “you’re doing it right now.”

      • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        My pet peeve is when people say “everything is edible once” instead of “eatable”. No, everything is not edible once, that’s the point of the word!

        Lickable though, now we’re in business.