Can I lick it?

See, absolutely no order to the periodic table. Utterly useless.

The spiral's more fun, anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?

Flourine should be the darkest purple. Injesting or inhaling any amount is serious bad news.

So what I get from this: You can probably just lick it. Odds are in your favor

When in doubt, lick it.
- I follow the same rule with my wife.
- When a problem comes along, you must lick it
  Before the cream sets out too long, you must lick it
  When something's going wrong, you must lick it

I'm slightly infuriated that green doesn't say: yes, you can!

Can we edit it?!
- Sure, go for it.

OH BOI, HERE I GO LICKING RADIOACTIVE CARBON ISOTOPES AGAIN!

This diagram is way way way too conservative with the "see you on the other side" classification. To name a few: fluorine will literally make you catch fire instantly (if there's more of it, you will basically get burned to a crisp before you can even blink), caesium will violently react with water in your mouth and produce so much hydrogen and heat, the whole mixture will instantly explode (in fact, this will not only be a usual, fire-like explosion, it will in addition to that be a so-called Coulomb explosion, which makes the situation even worse)

I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!

I'll take a pint of the purple stuff to go, please

Jokes on you, it'll decay before you reach the car.
- thanks, I'll take it all to stay then

I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.

Science. 💙

Sodium reacts violently in water
Chlorine was used in mustard gas
Sodium chloride : I make the soup too salty (yuckyCat.jpg)
swim in it all day
If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and start to turn cured like beef jerky?
- (Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky
- If it’s anything like pool salt, probably not. I have a neighbor who uses pool salt, and I feel like I come out less shriveled (in my fingers of course 😏) than if it were chlorine water.
- Ask RFK Jr
“minimal”
Tell that to my dad’s high blood pressure
If you eat salt all day its going to have some quite serious health effects. Traces of it are tasty but that is about the limit.
- Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fast...

Being colorblind sucks

can you see these? 🤔
- I love that the colour blind compatible version to just incompetentible to everyone else.
Don't let a stupid chart tell you what you can and can't lick.
It just means you can lick them all
- Superpowers!
Exactly.
They could very easily just keep the color for color seeing people, and then add a simple pattern in the background.
Like maybe diagonal lines on one, wavy horizontal lines in another, small dots in another, etc.
Just pretend you are taking a black and white picture or making a black and white copy on an old copy machine. Can you still interpret the data afterwards? If yes, then you did it right.
- What you're supposed to do with this stuff is design it in grayscale first, conveying information through shading, and then just add colour afterwards while maintaining the shade.

It's never occurred to me that I can lick neon

Can you lick a gas? Licking liquid neon is very unwise.
- Then lick solid neon, duh
You can lick xenon. Even inhale. Very fancy and very expensive. Show those nitrous plebs that you have the wealth to enjoy real chemical cuisine!
Just ask Rocky to make you some neononite. If they can make xenonite, I don't see why they couldn't do neonite.

Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪

Collider? I barely know her!
- ...And then they built the super collider.
  Thank you, you've been a great audience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
- You have activated my trap card!
  You see, I was waiting for someone to bring up head-in-particle-collider-soviet-man only to raise you a different less known Vietnamese physicist who stuck his hands there instead!
  there's an ok Kyle Hill video about it if you're interested (:
That’s what she said.

Licking Lead is only "not a great idea?" I think it's squarely in the "Please don't do that" territory.

You can absolutely lick lead once without any noticeable consequences. You need to be living in constant interaction with lead to get poisoning.
- The best part is that if you do it enough you will forget what the problem is and an continue to lick lead.
Would you rather lick Uranium?
- Damn, so close, put "us" in there and I'd be licking Uranus.

Why isn't one of those responses

"Yes, you can!" ?

Because "Sure, go for it" is just that worded another way.
- Listen to more music, bro.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uV8TGjaGU

Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure

Yeah, if it's possible to have a normal licking experience with something that's gaseous at room temperature, it's not going to go well if you do lick it.

Go ahead and lick pure oxygen. Nothing wrong with that, sure.

You know O2 is pure oxygen right? Unless we're getting into the technicality of if things in there gaseous forms can be licked it's safe.
- i think gasses can be licked, for example - if i put menthol shards into hot cup of water, i can definitely feel it on my tongue if i lick the air above the cup. therefore, lickable
- Get a bottle of pure oxygen and open it over a tongue-simulator¹ to see what happens.
  People usually use a hot-dog. But with oxygen, even a piece of wood is close enough.

PlumBum is my favorite flavor.

Some of those in the actinoid [sic] series are gonna be really difficult to lick simply because of how unbelievably short their half-life is, or those such as mendelevium, that require you to either have access to (and in other cases even have your head inside of) a linear particle collider.

You know, I'm surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.

Yes you can! ...well I'm gone!

Missed opportunity for sure!

For the tactile learners out there!

I want to meet the motherfucker bold enough to lick cesium.

I don't think you'd be licking much of anything after that. It's the one at 10 seconds in the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNsIaSbFdg
They're so casual about it too.

The most useful chart 😅

Lick mercury? Plenty of people carry lumps of it right in their teeth, 24/7.

Technically they're amalgams with silver or other metals. Different properties and such.
I responded similarly when I saw this posted before. Yes, mercury can be very toxic if it gets into your blood, but the chances of that happening from a lick are astonishingly small.
- To my understanding, organic compounds are where the real danger is with mercury.

Licks liquid Nitrogen

Licking hydrogen is safe? Licks the sun

If chemistry was spearheaded by goats

Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.

Titanium should not be on a higher danger level than lead.

Edit: Tl != Ti

That's Thallium (Tl). Titanium (Ti) is a happy shade of green.
(I'm only replying because I thought that same thing at first glance)
- Titanium (Ti) is a happy shade of green.
  And I would certainly hope so. You can buy eating utensils made from titanium.
- Ah thanks.

Technically you can lick anything. You just won't be around for long if you lick some of them.

And none of the answers say that you can't. Some of them just say that you shouldn't.

licking uranium is only "maybe not the best idea"?

Compared to some of the others it's pretty low in radioactivity (isotope dependent)
- Uranium is a toxic metal, even when completely disregarding its radioactivity

I’ve been told that uranium tastes just like lemon drops.

I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium

Radon should be yellow. You don't want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but it's still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.

Just like how lithium should be red. Just because it's less likely to explode your face open doesn't mean that it's just "not a good idea". It immediately creates pure Lithium Hydroxide, which will immediately start saponifying your mouth, and that's assuming it doesn't immediately light on fire, like the last time I did that experiment.

Saw this table already here.

In no circumstances you should lick Bohr. Go lick Lead instead - it's much safer

The hydrogen is more likely to explode than poison me.

But Rubidium is so delicious!

Noble gases go from 0 to 100 real quick.

Radioactivity will do that.

Source please?

I honestly have no idea where this originated, but it looks like it's been everywhere, has t-shirts and posters, etc.
- I watched a video from 11 hours ago by the dude who made it, well, made this version at least.
  https://youtu.be/NEP9MthJXaU
  It's the exact same one on the video, something he's done for several videos.