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  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Please always ensure whatever element you use has a stable base larger than the insertion point

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    make nickel yellow (some people are allergic) osmium will be probably covered by layer of toxic tetroxide, cadmium and tellurium are also decently toxic

    e: i misremembered, but you still don't want to be around tellurium:

    Humans exposed to as little as 0.01 mg/m3 or less in air exude a foul garlic-like odor known as "tellurium breath".[23][91] This is caused by the body converting tellurium from any oxidation state to dimethyl telluride, (CH3)2Te, a volatile compound with a pungent garlic-like smell. Volunteers given 15 mg of tellurium still had this characteristic smell on their breath eight months later. In laboratories, this odor makes it possible to discern which scientists are responsible for tellurium chemistry, and even which books they have handled in the past.[92]

    selenium is a bit similar in this aspect

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      why is cerium yellow but other lantanides green, technetium is cheaper than you think (fission product) but it's also radioactive

      plutonium and americium, and maybe uranium also should be blue, CIA would anal probe you for less

  • Big_Bob [any]
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    5 months ago

    If it glows, it goes. (Up my ass)

  • Technus@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    I'd love to see the reasoning for each element. Most of them are obvious but I'm curious about some of them.

    Are all the gasses dangerous because they'd have to be frozen to a solid? You could use them to pressurize a dildo-shaped envelope, though.

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      That's great! because a surprising amount of research was done (way more than anticipated). You will learn some crazy things by studying this. All elements are in solid form at STP so for the gasses that's in the range of -200 C. Someone suggested doing a version with liquid and gas enemas but you know? I'm just not that dedicated (yet)

      • Technus@lemmy.zip
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        5 months ago

        My first thought was "why is nitrogen dangerous?" but I was thinking about it at room temperature or around 20C.

        I know about decompression sickness (the bends) but I wouldn't expect that to be a problem at 1 atmosphere. Then I stumbled upon isobaric counterdiffusion and I wondered if that could happen from pumping any pure gas into the rectum at atmospheric pressure, since it'd be at a higher partial pressure than any gas in the tissue.

        • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          hexagon
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          5 months ago

          Yeah I think gasses in the rectum have several severe issues that liquids don't have. Mostly because liquids don't exert pressure. Could get pretty in-depth.

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      Here's some interesting ones that I don't think anyone's asked yet so far

      The two CIA ones? Only elements with an unenriched isotope that can reach critical mass (and don't instantly disappear). You'd need only a few dildos to make a nuclear bomb. The anal probe and CIA disappearing is literal.

      Borat is in this diagram

      Starting with Potassium the Alkalis become basically explosive to water and get progressively more reactive. If you haven't covered it yet this is because their valence shells get weaker the heavier you go.

      Hydrogen and Helium so far basically cannot exist in solid form at STP in any appreciable amount.

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5 months ago

        calcium, strontium and barium are also pretty reactive with water, and at any rate beyond hydrogen the other product (metal hydroxide) is corrosive

      • Technus@lemmy.zip
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        5 months ago

        IMO, I'd count plutonium in the anal probe category. Enriched or not, it's gonna raise tons of red flags.

        Buying that much uranium would probably just get your house raided by the FBI. If you told them what you were planning on doing with it, they might find it funny enough not to indict you but they probably wouldn't let you keep it.

        • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          hexagon
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          5 months ago

          You goin to Guantanamo but almost certainly alive. If you knew how to make quantities of Curium and Calorfinium though.. yeah you're dead or not coming out of a cardboard box.

  • sgtlion [any]
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    5 months ago

    Those lanthanides... are we not terming a lethal radiation dose as rectal damage?? Or are you assuming an ideal isotope?

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      I think the whole lanthanide row could use a review by an "expert". Sparse information on relative toxicity and relative radiated energy and immediate effects on mucus membranes. Someone still in school ask their prof and show them this diagram.

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      Right. Most stable isotope. Note that the green still says 'probably'... all bets are off.

      I know it's totally not obvious but Rektal damage was meme for "you would probably die". Pretty sure 90% of these cause rectal damage.

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      The only reason it's red actually is because of burns and irritation to mucus membranes. It's far less dangerous than most. So yellow would probably make more sense.

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      The assumption is that all elements are in solid form at STP and crumbly/unwieldly elements have a suitable binding agent. Or you know, determination I guess?

        • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          5 months ago

          Hey man. I think the rules are kind of flexible here. I'm not the dildo police.

          Edit: Personally I'd say 'binding agent' could mean the most pure alloy you can make a dildo out of.

      • Technus@lemmy.zip
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        5 months ago

        The seller's website does mention it's an alloy: https://shop.tungsten.com/tungsten-cube/

        They don't say exactly which alloy but according to this page it's going to be 90-95% tungsten with the rest being nickel and either iron or copper: https://www.tungsten.com/material-info/tungsten-heavy-alloy-w-ni-fe-cu