I like how uranium is barely maybe not a good idea to lick
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You're not likely to ingest enough for radiation to be a mayor concern, but the heavy metal poisoning won't be fun
Unless it's enriched Uranium isn't all that bad. Short term you could probably get away with it in terms of radiation. You eat some every time you ingest root vegetables. If you actually ingest 25mg or more your kidneys will go before the radiation gets you.
And Thallium!
Pb is yellow and there are two more colors to go... 
Elemental lead is mostly harmless. Lead ions are where you really start to get into trouble.
Edit: dont make a habit of eating lead, but licking it wont hurt you. People have been biting lead fishing sinkers for hundreds of years without any real issue.
I don’t see a No in there so ¯\(ツ)/¯
Not sure if licking Hydrogen is such a good idea...
At room temperature it will float away anyways
Licking implies it is in solid or, charitably, liquid form. That makes all of the gases real bad to lick.
Na and Cl, not individually, but people lick it all the time when they combine.
Now I wonder what effects are of exposure to exotic elements
the severe radiation sickness will get you before the heavy metal poisoning
Tbh, I think I'd much prefer to try my luck licking Mercury rather than Uranium
I'd go with the uranium cause it's a rock and not liquid at room temperature, you're gonna get exposed to more liquid when you lick it than a rock
The thing about elemental mercury though is that it doesn't wet things like water or other liquid metals like Gallium do. The surface tension is so strong that virtually none of it is going to end up staying on your tongue
Unrefined Uranium is unradioactive enough that just licking it probably wouldn't do lasting damage
I love licking Pu.
Finally, a chart I understands......hahahahahhahahahah