• cally [he/they]
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    2011 months ago

    i’m not a chemist but is this licking the most common molecule form or the atomic variety

    O₂ is safe but i don’t think O is

      • @Eheran@lemmy.world
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        011 months ago

        O would completely destroy you in lickable quantities. I think you underestimate how extremely reactive it is. Just remember that it is so reactive that it reacts with oxygen to form ozone. This is not a little byproduct in extremely small quantities all throughout the body, which is also not the O radical anyway.