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Can I Put it in my Ass? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

make nickel yellow (some people are allergic) osmium will be probably covered by layer of toxic tetroxide, cadmium and tellurium are also decently toxic

e: i misremembered, but you still don't want to be around tellurium:

Humans exposed to as little as 0.01 mg/m3 or less in air exude a foul garlic-like odor known as "tellurium breath".[23][91] This is caused by the body converting tellurium from any oxidation state to dimethyl telluride, (CH3)2Te, a volatile compound with a pungent garlic-like smell. Volunteers given 15 mg of tellurium still had this characteristic smell on their breath eight months later. In laboratories, this odor makes it possible to discern which scientists are responsible for tellurium chemistry, and even which books they have handled in the past.[92]

selenium is a bit similar in this aspect

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

why is cerium yellow but other lantanides green, technetium is cheaper than you think (fission product) but it's also radioactive

plutonium and americium, and maybe uranium also should be blue, CIA would anal probe you for less

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You're right, wikipedia prices are way outdated. Unenriched isotopes aren't blue 'cause I'm assuming they'd let you live.

Edit: I couldn't find the reason for that, someone just told me to make it yellow. Back to green it goes.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

also make sulfur green, probably phosphorus too if not as white phosphorus

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Actually I'll make it the very first split color. Exciting.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

if you're splitting colours, expensiveness/unphysicalness of the thing is not related to actual danger, so you can indicate both things at once

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago

For the nobel prize ones they'd all be purple with a couple red so I'm gonna avoid cluttering up the graph too much.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

make nickel yellow

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago

Not differentiated whether it's red, yellow or white phosphorus so it defaults to the hurty one lol