• Tar_Alcaran
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    124 months ago

    Nah, metallic lead is pretty solid. Licking it doesn’t really do much. You shouldn’t ingest lead, but you don’t really ingest it by licking a piece of metal.

    • @Frostbeard
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      44 months ago

      Same with metallic mercury. But once it evaporates…

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        54 months ago

        Well, when you lick mercury, you’re actually going to swallow a lot of it. Thankfully, you’ll poop most of it out, and as long as you do it once, it won’t kill you.

        But if I had to pick between licking lead or mercury, I’d go with lead.

        • @Frostbeard
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          44 months ago

          Oh yeah. I am om team lead. The problem with Mercury is the vapor that ridiculously easy methylates when heated, and then you have a nerve toxin that quite easily crosses the blood-brain barrier.