• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    you lick O2, diatomic oxygen. If you could ‘lick’ monoatomic oxygen, it would be about equivalent to licking something like fluorine.

    Oxygen just really really really wants electrons. It’s up there with fluorine in this regard.

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Oxygen is a beast.

      O wants to join with everything so bad, it sticks to itself first. O2 is still hungry enough to spontaneously eat iron. O3 can start breaking down some plastics and is extremely effective at sterilization.

      Oxygen is extremely underrated and is the honey badger of all the elements.

    • threelonmusketeersOP
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      7 months ago

      Ah, I see. I assumed that this meme referred to licking a macroscopic “lump” of each element, rather than a single atoms.