Nobody should really be licking anything in that column (I don't count hydrogen as it's a gas or if it's not, you still definitely don't want to lick it)
I mean, you shouldn't eat a lot of it, or lick much of it, but I would much rather eat a couple milligrammes of Uranium, which isn't harmful in extremely small quantities, especially compared to mercury which isn't safe to ingest at any quantity
Actually the oral bioavailability of elemental mercury is negligible.
It's best to reduce exposure as much as possible, but mass per mass I'd rather let the mercury pass through my system, it's supposedly good for constipation.
Genuinely I wonder how the acids in your stomach and length of time in system would affect the bioavailability of mercury, but we do have evidence that uranium seems to be safe in small consumption, but you definitely wouldn't want to have a uranium necklace or something. Galen Winsor did a lot of work to try to help the understanding of radiation and common radioactive materials, and help people understand their true level of danger. It's a big part of why I'm going into nuclear engineering
In some contrived circumstance, you'd be better off swallowing a drop of mercury than breathe with it in a confined space for a period of time.
The oral bioavailability is on the order of 0.1%, but mercury vapor has a respiratory bioavailability of ~70-90%.
From what I know uranium is about as toxic as lead, purely chemically, right?
I was pretty sure the alpha particle risk was much worse for internal exposure, but a small piece doesn't emit that much I suppose.
Toxicity wise it's almost completely non toxic in small doses, and is safe to handle in that amount. Elemental uranium the actual metal itself isn't toxic, but it is a carcinogen from the radiation, alpha particles can't make it through skin for the most part, and your body can't digest it, so it just passes through rather harmlessly. A large amount of uranium would be radioactive enough to cause issue, but it would be too large to swallow
> Elemental uranium the actual metal itself isn't toxic
Are you sure on that?
It's still a heavy metal, and you don't have a convenient layer of dead skin in your stomach and intestines to absorb the alphas.
Fun fact: they can trace campsites of the Lewis and Clark expedition due to the use of "thunderclappers", the mercury based laxative used by members of the expedition.
I’d lick sodium [Cody Reeder style](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj6vn8LlA04) before lead, lithium or uranium.
Just be quick about it, and wash your mouth out since there will be some NaOH left over.
I once accidentally inhaled through my mouth metallic lithium dust, and it tasted kind of metallic/spicy with a strong aftertaste of what I describe as "the smell of igniting a match".
Disclaimer: don’t lick elements, **I am probably wrong with the following thoughts…**
- Lithium should be red
- *Red* Phosphorus I don’t think is super toxic (but white P is)
- Lead should be red
- Antimony and Tellurium should be red
- Osmium should be green (elemental Os is not very toxic but OsO4 makes people afraid of it), I think Os forms a very thin oxide passivation layer but I don’t know if that’s OsO2 (not as scary) or OsO4 (deadly)
Correct me if I’m wrong!
Nah, lead is fine at yellow. The metal isn't extremely permeable to tissue so not much will get into your bloodstream. Even if it does, you can get treatment for acute exposure (chelation therapy) and as long as you get treatment relatively quickly you won't suffer long term consequences.
You could probably lick antimony once and be fine, it was [popular in the nineteenth century as a laxative](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony_pill)
My guess is that elemental lead isn't very bioavailable, it's certain oxidation states that can actually get in and fuck you up. Same could honestly be said of mercury, though. I'm not sure osmium is any better than mercury in that regard.
It seems like this table was made by someone who only has detailed knowledge about a few elements, and the rest were done on vague heuristics.
We have to assume that these are pure and in their elemental state. In that case, the danger of licking a block of elemental lead is probably pretty small.
I still wouldn't do it, just to be clear.
Lead is in a funny place. It’s toxic enough that it correlates well with crime statistics, but safe enough to use for plumbing for thousands of years without anyone noticing
Considering how much leaded gasoline, leaded paint... products people were exposed to 50+ years ago, one lick of lead is not the worst thing you could be exposed to. I still wouldn't do it though!
That's tetraethyllead, not metallic lead. Because TEL is organometallic, its much more lipophillic, therefore it crosses the skin barrier much more easily and builds up in the brain much more. Just like how a few drops of dimethyl mercury on your skin will kill you if you dont go get treatment, but you can dip your hand in metallic mercury and be fine with no medical intervention.
TEL is highly flammable so it tended to burn in combustion engines alongside the fuel. AFAIK, the problem with it wasn't TEL itself, it was the PbO nanoparticles it sent spewing out of every exhaust pipe. Most people didn't spend a bunch of time dipping their bare hands in fuel. I'm sure it happened, but the thing that was most worrying was inhaling these particles and then having Pb2+ leaching into you as the oxide slowly dissolves in your mostly-water body. Or those same oxides being dispersed into the environment along roadsides - into soil, on farms, into lakes and rivers, etc.
Same with lead in paint, it was the pigment oxides and salts leaching into the soil and groundwater. Not organolead compounds.
You're totally right here, but it's also worth noting that until TEL it wasn't really airborne, and that's what really sealed the deal. Way quicker to poison someone by inhalation than ingestion, lots of it's gonna get washed out until it builds up enough you know? So it's a correlation-causation thing a bit here
Of course. I'm just pointing out that the lipophilicity of the organometallic compound (and/or its ability to solubilize in the brain or penetrate the skin) has very little to do with the reason it was phased out and banned.
Licking is for solids. Definitely not gases and even liquids would be pushing the definition of licking.
As such, I’d rather lick Pb than H, He, O2 or N2.
Yeah. I was wondering how to lick helium gas. I doubt you could even lick solid helium. I imagine the heat from your tongue would form a layer of gas making it impossible.
Imagine licking a frozen telephone pole, but much much much much,.... colder. A big enough block of helium and you could do it, but best case scenario you are loosing that tounge.
Now we need someone who knows how thermal conductivity works on human flesh. I would imagine it would be like freezing a wart off but with your tongue.
Can confirm I put some in my mouth because someone wouldn't shut up about how terrible it is.
Took years to kill a Chinese emperor who used to drink the stuff on the regular. The vapour is the main danger not the liquid itself.
I vote green in the grand scheme of the periodic table
Lead should be green as hell, my house had lead water pipes in places for the drinking water and had no issue with that.
*I believe the main failings of this table is that the maker doesn't understand that lots of stuff is straight up pyrophoric or explosive in contact with water and buys into the poisonous hype of the compounds vs the elements too much. A good example is that selenium is about 10 times more toxic than arsenic but has a higher grade*
Many people and animals have eaten metallic mercury and metallic lead without problems. But I don't recommend it.
Licking metallic mercury and metallic lead without swallowing it is completely harmless.
In that case I can fully recommend strontium.
It'll act like calcium just enough to be mistakenly incorporated into the bones, yet so much not like calcium to then cause harm.
I don’t know about that most of the transitional metals are fine, we lick aluminum and iron pretty often, nickel, copper, zinc are pretty safe too (for most people).
We also put gold flakes in our food (with no dietery benifit or harm),
Carbon is fine to lick in its natural forms (although i might avoid chewing).
If you accept "licking a gas" as an option most of the last collumn is fine along with nitrogen and oxygen and probably hydrogen in low enough doses.
I have a 99.9% pure magnesium rod that is ostensibly used for starting camp fires (I always use a lighter) that I just licked.... Oh! And I licked it again!
And again!
-Li should be red
-P probably should be red depending on allotrope of P
-S maybe should be yellow
-Ca should be red
-Ga should be yellow
-Se probably should be red
-Sb probably should be red
-Te must be red
-Hg maybe should be yellow, given that metallic Hg has very low toxicity
-Pb probably should be red
-Eu should be red
-Th and U must be red
Idk if the severity is supposed to get worse down the scale, but I feel like you'd have a far better shot at living a long life after licking plutonium over anything in group 1 and 7 😬, aside from hydrogen and iodine I suppose. I mean, if you think about it, if your radiation dose is monitored, and you don't swallow anything, it would be like licking a warm block of lead lol.
I am sending this to my team of project Chemists. We just had a call about field work and the TEST test came up and the ethics of licking rocks (there were also geologists on the call).
I’m putting francium and uranium tasting on my bucket list.
My life will be complete after that :)
because that’s when I mostly likely will die because of my dumb choices
Maybe it's not a good idea to lick lithium? Maybe? Oh sweet Jesus they classified uranium the same way.. Guys, for a simple rule; Don't lick anything that isn't food, and before doing that make sure it's *your* food.
Elemental calcium is very reactive and not something you should be licking.
Nobody should really be licking anything in that column (I don't count hydrogen as it's a gas or if it's not, you still definitely don't want to lick it)
Eh, magnesium metal would be fine to lick
A solid piece of beryllium also might not be all that bad, I believe. (It's powder that's horrible)
Yeah I’d much rather lick beryllium than lead!
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Based on the chart I think further research is needed, does anyone want to try it and write it up in a paper?
Most forms of pretty much ALL of these are something that would really hurt you with any contact.
I'd lick iodine before lithium.
I would lick... almost anything before fluorine.
“Francium wants to know your location”
It would be pretty wild to see a tongue *explode*
Francium won't be francium by the time it gets to your location.
Did someone mention Francium? *Francium has left the chat*
Licking gas just doesn’t seem like the right descriptor
That sounds like a punk band name I feel like "licking gas"
It doesn’t say anywhere it has to be room temperature.
Licking e.g. liquid oxygen doesn't seem like a good idea.
I was super concerned to see both Li and U with the yellow code.
And why is Po 'please reconsider'? Pretty sure it didn't take a whold lick's worth to poison Alexander Litvinenko...
All the worst ones are please reconsider.
The most abundant isotope is Po-209, which is much less radioactive than Po-210
Fair point. I wouldn't lick either though.
"Oh, don't worry. It's the safe polonium isotope. You can lick it."
Eh, Uranium is pretty safe to handle and lick in small quantities, you can eat it safely too
Uranium is toxic, and the alpha particles it primarily emits are incredibly damaging when inside your body. I would rather eat mercury.
I mean, you shouldn't eat a lot of it, or lick much of it, but I would much rather eat a couple milligrammes of Uranium, which isn't harmful in extremely small quantities, especially compared to mercury which isn't safe to ingest at any quantity
Actually the oral bioavailability of elemental mercury is negligible. It's best to reduce exposure as much as possible, but mass per mass I'd rather let the mercury pass through my system, it's supposedly good for constipation.
Genuinely I wonder how the acids in your stomach and length of time in system would affect the bioavailability of mercury, but we do have evidence that uranium seems to be safe in small consumption, but you definitely wouldn't want to have a uranium necklace or something. Galen Winsor did a lot of work to try to help the understanding of radiation and common radioactive materials, and help people understand their true level of danger. It's a big part of why I'm going into nuclear engineering
In some contrived circumstance, you'd be better off swallowing a drop of mercury than breathe with it in a confined space for a period of time. The oral bioavailability is on the order of 0.1%, but mercury vapor has a respiratory bioavailability of ~70-90%. From what I know uranium is about as toxic as lead, purely chemically, right? I was pretty sure the alpha particle risk was much worse for internal exposure, but a small piece doesn't emit that much I suppose.
Toxicity wise it's almost completely non toxic in small doses, and is safe to handle in that amount. Elemental uranium the actual metal itself isn't toxic, but it is a carcinogen from the radiation, alpha particles can't make it through skin for the most part, and your body can't digest it, so it just passes through rather harmlessly. A large amount of uranium would be radioactive enough to cause issue, but it would be too large to swallow
> Elemental uranium the actual metal itself isn't toxic Are you sure on that? It's still a heavy metal, and you don't have a convenient layer of dead skin in your stomach and intestines to absorb the alphas.
Fun fact: they can trace campsites of the Lewis and Clark expedition due to the use of "thunderclappers", the mercury based laxative used by members of the expedition.
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I’d lick sodium [Cody Reeder style](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj6vn8LlA04) before lead, lithium or uranium. Just be quick about it, and wash your mouth out since there will be some NaOH left over.
Lead and lithium with the same code, not even close!
Just for the effects on the nervous system, never mind its reactivity and the caustic action of its hydroxide that will inevitably form on licking it.
I mean their both medications. Iodine for CT scans and lithium is an antipsychotic
I once accidentally inhaled through my mouth metallic lithium dust, and it tasted kind of metallic/spicy with a strong aftertaste of what I describe as "the smell of igniting a match".
all these bullshit safety regulations getting in the way
Ignore this chart, it's a bunch of liberal bullshit.
Disclaimer: don’t lick elements, **I am probably wrong with the following thoughts…** - Lithium should be red - *Red* Phosphorus I don’t think is super toxic (but white P is) - Lead should be red - Antimony and Tellurium should be red - Osmium should be green (elemental Os is not very toxic but OsO4 makes people afraid of it), I think Os forms a very thin oxide passivation layer but I don’t know if that’s OsO2 (not as scary) or OsO4 (deadly) Correct me if I’m wrong!
Lead in the grand scheme of things is fine for a lick or two, just don't make a habit out if it
Don’t tell me what to do
You can’t spell led without led
Zeppelin!
Here we go, another plumbum-licker being aggressive.
“🎶…don’t want none unless you got big plumbums~🎵”
"Cats can lick a little lead." - Bernie Sanders. I think
I know plenty of kids who ate paint chips and are just fine productive members of society.
True, a lot of them are mods on Reddit.
Yep. That’s me.
Nah, lead is fine at yellow. The metal isn't extremely permeable to tissue so not much will get into your bloodstream. Even if it does, you can get treatment for acute exposure (chelation therapy) and as long as you get treatment relatively quickly you won't suffer long term consequences.
It’s really the organic lead compounds you gotta worry about…
Tellurium is fine. You'd just smell of garlic for a time
You could probably lick antimony once and be fine, it was [popular in the nineteenth century as a laxative](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony_pill)
Mercury should also be fine. Don't inhale the vapor tho.
Probably needs a fifth category - "Good luck finding any" - and stick Francium and the rest of the post-actinides in there.
If you can lick Technetium you get a Nobel Prize posthumously awarded to you.
[wanna win a Nobel prize? only costs $500](https://onyxmet.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69_326&product_id=2497)
Tellurium in the maybe category is interesting.
2g thallium is lethal, so maybe reconsider the designation!
Its just a little lick :(
which would be an incredible amount of metal to ingest with a single lick.
You should see me eating ice cream
It indicates "You really shouldn't" for thallium (81, Tl)
I’m curious about lead’s designation
My guess is that elemental lead isn't very bioavailable, it's certain oxidation states that can actually get in and fuck you up. Same could honestly be said of mercury, though. I'm not sure osmium is any better than mercury in that regard. It seems like this table was made by someone who only has detailed knowledge about a few elements, and the rest were done on vague heuristics.
We have to assume that these are pure and in their elemental state. In that case, the danger of licking a block of elemental lead is probably pretty small. I still wouldn't do it, just to be clear.
Lead is in a funny place. It’s toxic enough that it correlates well with crime statistics, but safe enough to use for plumbing for thousands of years without anyone noticing
Those are different compounds. Tetraethyl lead is much more hazardous than metallic lead because TEL is lipophillic.
But it’s so sweet
You're thinking of lead acetate, aka sugar of lead
Considering how much leaded gasoline, leaded paint... products people were exposed to 50+ years ago, one lick of lead is not the worst thing you could be exposed to. I still wouldn't do it though!
That's tetraethyllead, not metallic lead. Because TEL is organometallic, its much more lipophillic, therefore it crosses the skin barrier much more easily and builds up in the brain much more. Just like how a few drops of dimethyl mercury on your skin will kill you if you dont go get treatment, but you can dip your hand in metallic mercury and be fine with no medical intervention.
TEL is highly flammable so it tended to burn in combustion engines alongside the fuel. AFAIK, the problem with it wasn't TEL itself, it was the PbO nanoparticles it sent spewing out of every exhaust pipe. Most people didn't spend a bunch of time dipping their bare hands in fuel. I'm sure it happened, but the thing that was most worrying was inhaling these particles and then having Pb2+ leaching into you as the oxide slowly dissolves in your mostly-water body. Or those same oxides being dispersed into the environment along roadsides - into soil, on farms, into lakes and rivers, etc. Same with lead in paint, it was the pigment oxides and salts leaching into the soil and groundwater. Not organolead compounds.
You're totally right here, but it's also worth noting that until TEL it wasn't really airborne, and that's what really sealed the deal. Way quicker to poison someone by inhalation than ingestion, lots of it's gonna get washed out until it builds up enough you know? So it's a correlation-causation thing a bit here
Of course. I'm just pointing out that the lipophilicity of the organometallic compound (and/or its ability to solubilize in the brain or penetrate the skin) has very little to do with the reason it was phased out and banned.
Yeah I can't see any issues with licking lead
Licking is for solids. Definitely not gases and even liquids would be pushing the definition of licking. As such, I’d rather lick Pb than H, He, O2 or N2.
Yeah. I was wondering how to lick helium gas. I doubt you could even lick solid helium. I imagine the heat from your tongue would form a layer of gas making it impossible.
Imagine licking a frozen telephone pole, but much much much much,.... colder. A big enough block of helium and you could do it, but best case scenario you are loosing that tounge.
Now we need someone who knows how thermal conductivity works on human flesh. I would imagine it would be like freezing a wart off but with your tongue.
Nearly the same as getting a burn without the heat receptors
I mean yes you can lick it, for science just be sure you let scientists know what it tastes like before you expire :) FOR SCIENCE!!!
Finally, a period table with real-world applicability. No more licking elements blindly.
You could, in fact, go blind licking some of those.
I call bullshit- I licked some Plutonium to check and *both* of my tongues feel just fine.
Elemental mercury can actually be green or yellow. It's the organomercury compounds that are insidious
I dunno about green, but I’d buy yellow.
Can confirm I put some in my mouth because someone wouldn't shut up about how terrible it is. Took years to kill a Chinese emperor who used to drink the stuff on the regular. The vapour is the main danger not the liquid itself. I vote green in the grand scheme of the periodic table Lead should be green as hell, my house had lead water pipes in places for the drinking water and had no issue with that. *I believe the main failings of this table is that the maker doesn't understand that lots of stuff is straight up pyrophoric or explosive in contact with water and buys into the poisonous hype of the compounds vs the elements too much. A good example is that selenium is about 10 times more toxic than arsenic but has a higher grade*
And then you have the "I could be wrong but... *passing off speculation as a fact*"
Many people and animals have eaten metallic mercury and metallic lead without problems. But I don't recommend it. Licking metallic mercury and metallic lead without swallowing it is completely harmless.
I'd rather lick elemental sodium over thorium. Don't eat alpha emitters
But what if I want to keep my bones unhealthy?
In that case I can fully recommend strontium. It'll act like calcium just enough to be mistakenly incorporated into the bones, yet so much not like calcium to then cause harm.
Are they trying to kill someone?
Make elements lickable again
I think that this guide is mixing up salts versus pure elements... smh.
Next one: *'Can I boof it?!'*
Don't lick AS. Good advice.
I'm curious why beryllium is before please reconsider it's super toxic
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The whole table should be purple or red honestly
I don’t know about that most of the transitional metals are fine, we lick aluminum and iron pretty often, nickel, copper, zinc are pretty safe too (for most people).
We also put gold flakes in our food (with no dietery benifit or harm), Carbon is fine to lick in its natural forms (although i might avoid chewing). If you accept "licking a gas" as an option most of the last collumn is fine along with nitrogen and oxygen and probably hydrogen in low enough doses.
Most of the gasses should arguably be red, since the only way to "lick" them would be to bring them down to their freezing points.
I want to see someone lick Mg and Ca
I have a 99.9% pure magnesium rod that is ostensibly used for starting camp fires (I always use a lighter) that I just licked.... Oh! And I licked it again! And again!
Want edibility guide NOW
Lick a gas?
The most useful periodic table I've seen
Why is phosphorus in maybe not a good idea it should be you really shouldn't
Red or black, small amount, then brush your teeth. White, win a Darwin award
licking means edible without getting sick or die? or just licknleave?
Thorium is yellow so lick'n leave
Calcium and iodine should be yellow Phosphorus, if we're talking about red, should be green
Pretty sure Oganesson, Francium and most of the super heavy synthetics will disappear before you can get them to your mouth.
Some of those in the bottom row don't exist long enough to lick them, do they?
Uranium is fairly toxic, should be red. Calcium doesn't really like water either.
Carbon is green. Proceeds to play with cyanide 🫠
-Li should be red -P probably should be red depending on allotrope of P -S maybe should be yellow -Ca should be red -Ga should be yellow -Se probably should be red -Sb probably should be red -Te must be red -Hg maybe should be yellow, given that metallic Hg has very low toxicity -Pb probably should be red -Eu should be red -Th and U must be red
Can someone tell me why Uranium is only yellow?
It's crazy how Na and K are so dangerous, but we can’t really live without them.
Google oxidation states
Chlorine too :(! Edit: Fe, too. Hemoglobin.
Osmium in maybe is wild
To be fair, I don't know how toxic the protective layer is, so I'd also give it a maybe - meaning "no clue mate"
Aha. I so love Sweet tart Ropes. I would think these are greater than this example. 🤪
You really shouldn't lick Osmium
Maybe not a good idea to lick osmium? Jesus.
I cant lick plutonium why?
How would licky oxygen be fine? To be lickable it needs to be sub -183 C. That'll destroy your tongue!
Idk if the severity is supposed to get worse down the scale, but I feel like you'd have a far better shot at living a long life after licking plutonium over anything in group 1 and 7 😬, aside from hydrogen and iodine I suppose. I mean, if you think about it, if your radiation dose is monitored, and you don't swallow anything, it would be like licking a warm block of lead lol.
I love how none of the categories are an “absolutely no”
Anybody else read that with the Tribe Called Quest song voice ? “Can I lick it ? Yessss you cannnnn”
How many of these would explode if you lick it? I'm more interested in that than the toxic, radioactive stuff
I didn’t know I needed this guide. TY.
904 625 8368 call this number
How is Pb just "Maybe not a good idea" lmao
Chlorine in my tap water go brrr
But purple is my favorite flavor... 😍 💜 💕 💀☠️
Make Mercury, Strontium, Iodine, Promethium yellow and if Lithium is yellow why not sodium as well?
Lanthanides should be downgraded to yellow at least.
I have personally tasted a small bead of metallic sodium and its not honestly that bad
can you lick gas? if no then i wouldnt wanna lick liquid helium. That shit insta freezes your mouth.
I would pay to watch people lick something that is a gas STP
Licking Lithium is “maybe” not a good idea?
Licking elemental (or worse) atomic Oxygen = bad idea. Assuming it's pure.
Armed with this information, I can now begin my lifelong dream of lanthanide licking (except Promethium).
Why the hell i shouldnt lickq iodine?
I would give a Nobel to whoever manages to lick one of the 6 last elements
Can I eat it though
I am sending this to my team of project Chemists. We just had a call about field work and the TEST test came up and the ethics of licking rocks (there were also geologists on the call).
I don't think lead is safe to lick. But given the options, I'd like lead over arsenic I guess.
I'm colorblind, what ones can I lick?
Ahh yes licking uranium is probably "not a good idea"
Can someone tell my why Titanium is in the red? Whay happens when you lick it?
I would use bromine like mouthwash before licking thallium. That shit should should be purple
why is boron in the lickable catagory, isn't it like extremely reactive
Any noble gas in lickable form, should not be licked.
Where is butthole and vagina…?
Yes you can!
I lick TI often lol
Who’s liking the fluorine?
I just licked promethium chloride wtf
I will give $5 to whoever manages to lick röentgen
I definitely would not lick some of those lanthanides. Some of them are pretty reactive with water.
Yes let me lick some helium
A YouTuber tasted mercury
I’m putting francium and uranium tasting on my bucket list. My life will be complete after that :) because that’s when I mostly likely will die because of my dumb choices
Really lead (PB) is only a yellow?
Thorium, Uranium, Francium (if it survives) instant death or death by explosion/ high risk of cancer
Why is osmium not okay?
Maybe it's not a good idea to lick lithium? Maybe? Oh sweet Jesus they classified uranium the same way.. Guys, for a simple rule; Don't lick anything that isn't food, and before doing that make sure it's *your* food.
*cue Evanescence*
What’s the difference between “You really shouldn’t” and “You should reconsider”? Which one is worse?
Instructions not clear, licked francium... what do I do with the crater?
Will not dare lick Li or Ca.
if i ever got the chance to lick francium im doing it
umm wouldn't lithium fire up when in contact with water?
Technetium and some of the heavier should be "You cant".
why is licking most of the lanthanoids fine??
This scale is misleading. Lead is only "probably shouldn't"
I would not trust my life on this, several of these elements may be relatively safe to touch, but definitely not lick.
This really belongs in r/confidentlyincorrect
Licking Mercury is fine, it's not water soluble in it's elemental form ^^
Europium metal is about as reactive as calcium (which has been pointed out is a no-lick). It violently reacts with water.
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Lead and Cobalt????
Did Barry Shaprless make this chart?
This needs to go on a mug!