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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!
This is like the nile red videos where hes like “plastic gloves are essentially grape fruit” and then proceeds to make it.
I wanted to tell a joke here, but all the good jokes argon.
My lead sandwich is calling to me
Mmm Pb&J.
But Lead tastes so good!
I wonder what metallic Sodium tastes like…
It tastes like pain.
It tastes like hot hydrogen gas (that will quickly mix with oxygen and taste like superheated steam).
If that doesn’t get ya, it would taste like sodium hydroxide, and also soap. (The soap is from the hydroxide turning the fats in your cells into soap.)
Please don’t lick elemental hydrogen.
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you do?
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.
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.
What would cause the shift in pH? The atomic hydrogen would rip off H· radicals, not H+ ions.
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.
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-)?
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-RAll 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-ROverall, however, the amount of free hydrogen/protons is likely to be reduced as they are effectively removed from solution as hydrogen gas.
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?
They’re all lickable, it’s just that some you can only lick once.
Ah, a modest variation of the mushroom forager’s creed
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.
You can’t lick Titanium?
Titanium (22) is save to lick. Enjoy!
It is so safe to lick that it is used in dental and bone implants! Very lickable element.
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
A nobel prize would be given to a lot more of those. Especially those naturally brittle or liquid.
I guess it’s only implied but any liquid is inserted as a solid - e.i. below its melting point. It’s assumed anything crumbly has a suitable binding agent.
A few of them are definitely wrong as has been pointed out to me but I’m glad we’re all learning about science!
How is bromine “probably fine”? It should be in the rectal damage section.
Calcium should probably be in the “Ow, my ass” section.
There are a bunch wrong. Feel free to go crazy with it.
Edit: NEW VERSION IS UP Yay
Better, but still a few issues.
Promethium, radium, curium, and Californium are all radioactive enough to cause rectal damage. Conversely, I don’t think phosphorus (black or red) or selenium are reactive enough to cause much harm.
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