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[–] 12 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

It would, don't do it. There's more than one questionable assignment on the table including magnesium right above it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Wait, why shouldn't you lick magnesium? I've done that plenty of times (for giant dumbass reasons) and I'm no worse off than before I licked it...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Most of atoms can't be find as a pure form (metal/crystal or pair). You may have licked magnesium oxyde (MgO), but not magnesium as an explosive metal.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Ah, I see I've fallen for the classic ambiguity - I was assuming the vast chemistry arena we were licking things in was not a frictionless vacuum. Yes, it's hypothetically pyrophoric with water; though it would require some prodegious amounts of slobber (or some small amount of effort) to produce that effect just by licking it - and I'm not entirely sure how well human salivary glands operate under vacuum conditions....

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