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    3 months ago

    Definitely not licking pure lithium, sodium, or any of the alkali (s-block) metals. My tongue is wet. That shit explodes in water, yo.

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      3 months ago

      I wonder if you’d get a sort of leidenfrost effect limiting the extent of damage.

      I’m not going to test that though.

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        3 months ago

        Mg is an alkaline earth metal, not an alkali metal. :). Still have zero desire whatsoever to eat elemental Mg.

        But I did say s-block didn’t I. That’s on me, I set the bar too low.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, the only reason I replied was because you were responding to the calcium dude above, then said “s-block”. Just wanted to spread the good word of the 9th-most abundant element in the universe 🙏

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            3 months ago

            Frankly I’m amazed I even got as much of that right as I did. It’s been more than 20 years since I took a chemistry class—a lot of them—but still. It’s been a minute.