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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Please reconsider

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

In order to lick something at the very least it needs to be liquid, or better yet, solid.

Trying to kick hydrogen, with this in mind, will be the last lick you ever do in your life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Wish we had this in chemistry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Wtf, no, you should not lick boron, fucking ever. Go lick a piece of lead, it's better for your health

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

please reconsider again, some of them are tasty

from cody's lab

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah. That looks like something Codyslab will do...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

According to your table, it's not as bad as that, just not a good idea. E: Wait, missread that as thorium.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that Thorium and Uranium are just "probably not a good idea" makes me think that the scale is based on licking like an ore that contains them rather than the pure element

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I’m pretty sure I could get away with licking my uranium ore sample. Not going to test it apropos of nothing though.

A lot of those trans-uranium (and astatine) aren’t going to exist in lick-able quantities anyway.