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Can I lick it? (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lithium is only yellow??

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's literally medicine in small doses

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those are lithium compounds and not elemental lithium?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good question

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Medicinal lithium is a salt, not the raw metal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Indeed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Uranium is only yellow for some reason

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I fully agree with it being yellow. By far, the most common isotope of uranium is uranium-238, which is indeed radioactive, but not dangerously radioactive. In this list, lead is listed as a yellow because it can give you heavy metal poisoning. In this scenario, the uranium would cause more damage to your body by damaging it as lead would (heavy metal poisoning affecting brain, kidneys, liver, etc) before the radiation would ever have an impact on your body.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

But would it be elemental prior to licking or oxidized as usual? Because one is still significantly worse than the other and looking at lithium very much suggests elemental uranium!