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Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'm no chemist but - can you lick a gas?

Edit: pick

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Define "lick".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just freeze them

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you lick anything at minus 200, you're going to have a bad time.

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

That was my schoolmate...

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

You can lick liquid nitrogen, that's pretty close

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can you really?

[–] Contravariant 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can stick your tongue in it. Wouldn't recommend actually trying to get anything in your mouth.

You're protected by the thin layer of nitrogen that immediately sublimates, this lasts until the nitrogen heats up so the liquid can touch you directly, which you want to avoid.

For mostly the same reason you can stick a finger into molten lead (without losing said finger), provided you do it fast enough and your finger is wet enough.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You've never seen the trick where you put a small amount of liquid nitrogen in your mouth to demonstrate... science, IDK something to do with lederhosen?

Don't swallow it though, then you'll get a perforated stomach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not entirely sure that's completely accurate...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Guess I'm built different then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Your tongue is definitely gonna stick to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Same concern. It's even arguable you can only lick solids (and lap liquids). This would make hydrogen a Must Not Lick, for example, if we could only consider solid forms.