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Now all we need is a drink pairing guide (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do you lick Uranium?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Maybe not a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haven't had the chance yet but I wouldn't say no to licking uranium

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

just watch those isotopes :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Why is all of group 18 good until the bottom? Radioactive or worse?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're all inert noble gasses until you get down to radon which is radioactive (second largest cause of lung cancer). Then you get to oganesson which is so violently radioactive that it doesn't exist unless we make it exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

And at a half-life of 0.7ms, even if made to exist, Oganesson really doesn't do so willingly and will stop that at the first chance

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

Yes radon and oganesson are radioactive. Generally everything heavier than lead is radioactive. The rest in this column isn‘t dangerous, because these are noble gasses and don‘t (typically) react in any way.