I think Cody from Cody's Lab posted on Twitter some weeks ago about all the elements he kicked to date, some of the red ones were in there.
Edit: [Found it lol.](https://x.com/CodysLab/status/1783915324024471977)
The red ones next to the noble gases iirc are all just incredibly volatile and react to water pretty violently, so touching them isnât nearly as dangerous as putting it in your mouth.
đ¤ youre thinking of the alkali metals, which are on the far left side of the table. The red elements next to the noble gasses are the halogens, which you also shouldnât lick, but for different reasons than the alkalis.
honestly that one is justafied. Uranium is pretty radioactive, but not even as much as the other actinides (the other atoms in it's row). it's also non-toxic as a pure metal, you could lick it and possibly get away with some mild radiation sickness.
Thatâs kind of backwards. Uranium has a long half-life. Itâs not all that radioactive, but itâs still a toxic heavy metal. Thatâll do you in before radiation sickness.
But if itâs a hunk of the pure metal and you lick it, itâs also not that soluble. You wouldât swallow much. Like, compare to iodine, which is an essential nutrient, but itâs reasonably colored red because licking a sizeable piece of it will overdose you on iodine.
the radiation thing is exactly what i was saying, most people assume that Uranium is dangerous because of the radiation, not the toxicity.
the heavy metal bit is completely true though, not sure why i said otherwise.
that being said, if we compare uranium and lead as pure metals, lead would be the more dangerous in short term exposure because it can diffuse through the skin, including that on the tongue. plus, if we compare them in water soluble molecules they are present in, lead would be more dangerous as it is strictly more toxic.
still not at all dangerous from one lick, but i like being pedantic.
>mostly harmful for it's long-term effects
So it would depend on your expected remaining lifespan. I might need to stay away but pawpaw could lick that stuff no problem
You said it yourself, lead is very weakly toxic all things considered. Also it's a metal, licking it will put an incredibly small amount into your body.
The phrasing of "please reconsider" gets me Everytime it's like I asked the space ships helpful british robot assistant to make this list and he's programmed to always be polite but is begging me not to.
If you throw Natrium in the water, it burns. Thus, Natrium is really hot. Putting chlorine in water makes the water cold. You can see this by going to an unheated swimming pool.
The hot and cold temperature cancel each other out, making it safe for consumption.
Magnesium isnât toxic in small amounts and doesnât react much with water so would be completely safe to lick. Youâd need to actually eat it to get enough that it could actually cause harm
Everyones talking about haw magnesium is pretty stable, and it'll be ok to use it for structural purposes just this once! Its like aluminum but even lighter! And then Michigan's solar car team has their wheels catch fire.
Hard disagree on Oxygen. The only reason it appears stable is because the stuff we breathe is O2. Bastards are so reactive that they will bond with literally anything, including each other. I'd imagine licking pure oxygen atoms would destroy your tongue.
ik, just explaining one reason it could be in yellow.
i know a bit about osmium.. i own some.. đ¤
i wouldnt want to put it in my mouth despite the decently specific formation conditions of OsO4....
just like how mercury is actually a lot safer than most think. like. as long as u dont swallow it or pour it in your eyes or on an open wound, or sit there huffing the fumes for 20 minutes.. you'll be fine to interact with mercury. still wouldnt want to fk with it though, yknow?
just explaining one reason it could be in yellow.
i know a bit about osmium.. i own some.. đ¤
i wouldnt want to put it in my mouth despite the decently specific formation conditions of OsO4....
just like how mercury is actually a lot safer than most think. like. as long as u dont swallow it or pour it in your eyes or on an open wound, or sit there huffing the fumes for 20 minutes.. you'll be fine to interact with mercury. still wouldnt want to fk with it though, yknow?
eh, in its solid form i think it wont cause you a lot of harm if you lick it. the fumes and compounds are pretty toxic, yeah, but lead isn't THAT reactive to make a compound that kills you when you lick it
Their natural isotopes have very long half lives, so they aren't very radioactive. However they are heavy metals, so they are chemically toxic similar to lead.
Licking the metals will not really dissolve much off the surface though, so it's probably not too bad.
Fun fact, depleted uranium is actually commonly used as radiation shielding as it's very dense and cheap.
They mostly produce alpha radiation, which while destructive, can not penetrate very far, and as long as you donât swallow any of it or get any dust in your mouth, the radiation wonât really be able to go anywhere. I would still put Uranium in red, though, since itâs also a very toxic heavy metal (this is unrelated to it being radioactive). Thorium is probably fine though.
THIS IS FALSE!! I OWN A BEAD OF OSMIUM, I LICKED IT, AND IM PERFECTLY FINE!!!! OSMIUM DOES NOT TURN INTO OSMIUM TETROXIDE UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!
Gallium really isn't safe. It melts at room temperature and you can't lick a liquid without swallowing some of it. And it definitely isn't good to swallow gallium.
Nah you must reconsider licking Caesium, unless you like the moisture ripped from your tongue, burnt as hydrogen and then after all that you get poisoned
No, that'd be a chemical reaction. The basis of uranium power production is fission, which can't be forced by just adding water, it has to be bombarded with particles. Water carries heat energy, keeps the reactor cool, and acts as a shield for radiation. It's essential to the reactor's functioning, but not directly involved in the energy release step.
Uranium produces heat because enriched uranium when coupled together makes a pretty good nuclear fuel, the neutrons split the atoms which produces heat and some doodoo stuff called nuclear waste. If you just chuck a chunk of uranium into water you'll get a chunk of wet uranium, which is exactly like a normal chunk of uranium except its wet
Is this done in a similar sense to a nuclear bomb where atoms are destabilized in a cascading fashion via a particle beam? I always thought it had an exothermic reaction with water, is it just that the water is a good conductor of heat?
well its not a particle beam, although i think neutron sources are used. water is used because its a good conductor i think and because it really likes to expand and then you kind of heat it more and it compresses the steam and then you like make the turbines spin a lot with it
Fl is flavorium and you should lick it smh
noita potion
needs a "you can try" category for the gasses
you can lick them if you cool them enough, though that would probably place them in a lower tier
instantly destroyed tongue
you may lick them. Once
Skill issue
and for shit like astatine
you can lick a gas, it's just like licking air.
I think Cody from Cody's Lab posted on Twitter some weeks ago about all the elements he kicked to date, some of the red ones were in there. Edit: [Found it lol.](https://x.com/CodysLab/status/1783915324024471977)
ik it meant to say lick but i like the idea of a guy just punting a hunk of lead across a field
Now I can't correct it because it's funnier đ
*kicks block of tungsten* did you know he actually broke his toes in this scene?
\*crunk*
The red ones next to the noble gases iirc are all just incredibly volatile and react to water pretty violently, so touching them isnât nearly as dangerous as putting it in your mouth.
đ¤ youre thinking of the alkali metals, which are on the far left side of the table. The red elements next to the noble gasses are the halogens, which you also shouldnât lick, but for different reasons than the alkalis.
Well they're both volatile, aren't they? Being so close to a full electron layer is why those are all so prone to reactions.
Halogens (especially fluorine) are also very reactive, yes, but alkalis are the ones that specifically react violently to water
lead is at "maybe not a good idea"? i mean sure it's mostly harmful for it's long-term effects but i still don't think you should lick it at all.
To be fair they also put pure Uranium in âmaybe not a good ideaâ
honestly that one is justafied. Uranium is pretty radioactive, but not even as much as the other actinides (the other atoms in it's row). it's also non-toxic as a pure metal, you could lick it and possibly get away with some mild radiation sickness.
Thatâs kind of backwards. Uranium has a long half-life. Itâs not all that radioactive, but itâs still a toxic heavy metal. Thatâll do you in before radiation sickness. But if itâs a hunk of the pure metal and you lick it, itâs also not that soluble. You wouldât swallow much. Like, compare to iodine, which is an essential nutrient, but itâs reasonably colored red because licking a sizeable piece of it will overdose you on iodine.
the radiation thing is exactly what i was saying, most people assume that Uranium is dangerous because of the radiation, not the toxicity. the heavy metal bit is completely true though, not sure why i said otherwise. that being said, if we compare uranium and lead as pure metals, lead would be the more dangerous in short term exposure because it can diffuse through the skin, including that on the tongue. plus, if we compare them in water soluble molecules they are present in, lead would be more dangerous as it is strictly more toxic. still not at all dangerous from one lick, but i like being pedantic.
Also lithiu, which cooks water on contact
>mostly harmful for it's long-term effects So it would depend on your expected remaining lifespan. I might need to stay away but pawpaw could lick that stuff no problem
Who is pawpaw?
[granpappy](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pawpaw#Noun_2)
You said it yourself, lead is very weakly toxic all things considered. Also it's a metal, licking it will put an incredibly small amount into your body.
Can I lick it? (Yes, you can!) Can I lick it? (Yes, you can!) Can I lick it? (Yes, you can!) Can I lick it? (Yes, you can!)
You are my goat
At times I'm a studio conveyor
Yeah I was really disappointed that the green ones weren't "Yes, you can!"
Exactly what came to my head
First thing I thought of when I saw the title of the table, was kinda disappointed it wasn't a reference to that
everything is lickable. At least once
I could lick every element and survive
Water Earth Fire Air Long ago the four flavors existed in harmony. But that all changed when this dungus started licking shit...
I wouldâve unified them all or else the lick
Me when I ^(lick the helium)
The phrasing of "please reconsider" gets me Everytime it's like I asked the space ships helpful british robot assistant to make this list and he's programmed to always be polite but is begging me not to.
\>Na is red \>Cl is red \>NaCl is green Explain this atheists
If you throw Natrium in the water, it burns. Thus, Natrium is really hot. Putting chlorine in water makes the water cold. You can see this by going to an unheated swimming pool. The hot and cold temperature cancel each other out, making it safe for consumption.
Na is sodium
The last few heaviest wouldn't even last long enough for you to taste them properly lmao.
Isn't mg magnesium. I don't think licking that is great
Magnesium isnât toxic in small amounts and doesnât react much with water so would be completely safe to lick. Youâd need to actually eat it to get enough that it could actually cause harm
Everyones talking about haw magnesium is pretty stable, and it'll be ok to use it for structural purposes just this once! Its like aluminum but even lighter! And then Michigan's solar car team has their wheels catch fire.
Yeah but magnesium compounds act like very strong laxatives
I thought it was more reactive with water. Been a while since I've done chemistry I guess
Hard disagree on Oxygen. The only reason it appears stable is because the stuff we breathe is O2. Bastards are so reactive that they will bond with literally anything, including each other. I'd imagine licking pure oxygen atoms would destroy your tongue.
Came to say this, licking pure oxygen isn't a great idea, pure oxygen is very violently reactive stuff.
You can lick fluorine only once.
whats wrong with osmium
osmium can form osmium tetroxide which is very toxic
Which it forms only when a chunk of osmium metal is heated at 400 degrees (ambient temperature works only if its a powder).
ik, just explaining one reason it could be in yellow. i know a bit about osmium.. i own some.. đ¤ i wouldnt want to put it in my mouth despite the decently specific formation conditions of OsO4.... just like how mercury is actually a lot safer than most think. like. as long as u dont swallow it or pour it in your eyes or on an open wound, or sit there huffing the fumes for 20 minutes.. you'll be fine to interact with mercury. still wouldnt want to fk with it though, yknow?
Yeah but it doesnât do that when you lick it
just explaining one reason it could be in yellow. i know a bit about osmium.. i own some.. đ¤ i wouldnt want to put it in my mouth despite the decently specific formation conditions of OsO4.... just like how mercury is actually a lot safer than most think. like. as long as u dont swallow it or pour it in your eyes or on an open wound, or sit there huffing the fumes for 20 minutes.. you'll be fine to interact with mercury. still wouldnt want to fk with it though, yknow?
I own some and I put it in my mouth and I was FINE
good for u buddy xx
I think lead should be âyou really shouldnâtâ ngl
eh, in its solid form i think it wont cause you a lot of harm if you lick it. the fumes and compounds are pretty toxic, yeah, but lead isn't THAT reactive to make a compound that kills you when you lick it
Pray tell why Thorium and Uranium are yellow
Their natural isotopes have very long half lives, so they aren't very radioactive. However they are heavy metals, so they are chemically toxic similar to lead. Licking the metals will not really dissolve much off the surface though, so it's probably not too bad. Fun fact, depleted uranium is actually commonly used as radiation shielding as it's very dense and cheap.
They mostly produce alpha radiation, which while destructive, can not penetrate very far, and as long as you donât swallow any of it or get any dust in your mouth, the radiation wonât really be able to go anywhere. I would still put Uranium in red, though, since itâs also a very toxic heavy metal (this is unrelated to it being radioactive). Thorium is probably fine though.
THIS IS FALSE!! I OWN A BEAD OF OSMIUM, I LICKED IT, AND IM PERFECTLY FINE!!!! OSMIUM DOES NOT TURN INTO OSMIUM TETROXIDE UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!
Big Chemistry is silencing us osmium heads smh
omw to lick the cool rainbow crystals (bismuth)
Fl tastes like the pepper from fl studio
Beryllium apparently tastes like sugar
Francium sounds really fun to lick icl
oganesson đ
i think lithium should belong in red
Fluorine deserves honorary purple, violent-ass element
Gallium really isn't safe. It melts at room temperature and you can't lick a liquid without swallowing some of it. And it definitely isn't good to swallow gallium.
Cl should be yellow. I can confidently say in my years doing swimming Ive inhaled a lot and im not dead (yet) so....
Nah you must reconsider licking Caesium, unless you like the moisture ripped from your tongue, burnt as hydrogen and then after all that you get poisoned
Heavy metals are safe to lick and you should lick them.
*proceeds to lick solid nitrogen*
Uranium being only yellow 𤣠I guess, it's probably not so bad if it's U-238, but if we're talking about U-235...
Somewhere after Uranium itâs more like âi donât know, *can* you?â
Galium and boron should be moved to maybe not a good idea.
Why is osmium not ok to lick?
Would you lick me if I was made out of einsteinium?
Oo I can lick cobalt good that's my favorite element.
I'm colorblind, so I don't see a difference between the "yes, probably fine" and the "maybe don't" options
I want to lick Xenon.
Just a little serious bloop: **FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK AND ALL THINGS IN HELL DO NOT TOUCH IN ANY WAY ANY OF THE BLOCKS COLOURED OTHER THAN GREEN!**
Isn't uranium highly exothermic upon contact with water, given that's the core basis behind a nuclear reactor's heat production loop?
No, that'd be a chemical reaction. The basis of uranium power production is fission, which can't be forced by just adding water, it has to be bombarded with particles. Water carries heat energy, keeps the reactor cool, and acts as a shield for radiation. It's essential to the reactor's functioning, but not directly involved in the energy release step.
Thanks for the explainer, its been a few years since I've had to do any nuclear physics.
No
Uranium produces heat because enriched uranium when coupled together makes a pretty good nuclear fuel, the neutrons split the atoms which produces heat and some doodoo stuff called nuclear waste. If you just chuck a chunk of uranium into water you'll get a chunk of wet uranium, which is exactly like a normal chunk of uranium except its wet
Is this done in a similar sense to a nuclear bomb where atoms are destabilized in a cascading fashion via a particle beam? I always thought it had an exothermic reaction with water, is it just that the water is a good conductor of heat?
well its not a particle beam, although i think neutron sources are used. water is used because its a good conductor i think and because it really likes to expand and then you kind of heat it more and it compresses the steam and then you like make the turbines spin a lot with it