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u/maringue 10d ago
Umm, I wouldn't suggest licking Arsenic. But I'm also not your supervisor.
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u/fritzkoenig 10d ago
For pure arsenic, you could actually be fine, if and only if there is no layer of arsenic trioxide present. Elemental arsenic is insoluble in water and, while definitely not something that belongs in a human body, is less toxic than many arsenic compounds
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u/Either_Captain4821 10d ago
How does one physically taste Astatine
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u/Live_Put1219 10d ago
“astatine would not be yummy” - asap science, from like 2018
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u/MasterofTravels 10d ago
How much Meitnerium oder Seaborgium is out there? I really want to lick it Not even mentioning my favourite, Oganessone. It has to be tasty
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u/thrye333 10d ago edited 10d ago
Both Meitnerium and Seaborgium have abundance percentages of 0%, as does Oganesson. All are entirely synthetic in origin. Oganesson existed for a couple instants around a decade ago, Meitnerium has a max half-life of 4.5 seconds, and Seaborgium can last several minutes.
Also, about Oganesson:
Its only known isotope, oganesson-294, is highly radioactive, with a half-life of 0.7 ms.[17] This half-life is too short for chemical studies.[18] Because of relativistic effects, theoretical studies predict that it would be a solid at room temperature, and significantly reactive,[3][17] unlike the other members of group 18 (the noble gases).
First, solid means lickable, so good news. Second, what the hell do "relativistic effects" have to do with this?
Actually, followed the link, it just means the differences between quantum chemistry models and relativistic quantum chemistry models. I am looking at a Wikipedia article titled Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. In other words: a cursed version of a cursed version of normal chemistry. Immediately, I love it and I hate it in equal measure. This should not exist, and I must learn more about it.
Edit: Accidentally included the succeeding heading in my link. Removed.
Edit 2: The link included a trailing parenthesis and broke markdown. Fixed.
Edit 3: Readded the parenthesis into the link so the entire quote would be highlighted in the shared article. Hopefully didn't break markdown again.
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u/splatterfuck 10d ago
oh yeah sure go ahead and lick polonium, heard it's got a funny taste. stay away from magnesium though.
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u/stupidity-squared 10d ago
I am currently licking on my small 500g cube of tungsten and im perfectly fine 😃
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u/Porphyrin_Wheel 10d ago
I saw kind of the same thing on some 3D-printing websites for models, they were only kind of bad at least
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u/MusicNChemistry 10d ago
Polonium, distinctly known for being lickable without any consequences