What If You Swallowed All Elements of the Periodic Table?

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For dinner tonight, you are being treated to the tasting menu of a lifetime. The periodic table of elements. Which elements would you be able to eat? Which ones would taste or smell funny? And which elements would ruin the fun by killing you? Which of these 118 elements is the most dangerous? What is copper toxicity?

00:00 Eating the Periodic Table
00:39 What's an element?
01:27 Basic Building Blocks (Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorus)
01:57 Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Selenium, Iron, Copper
02:52 Noble Gases (Helium, Argon)
03:30 Antimony, Sulfur, Selenium, Livermorium
04:30 Not Safe for Consumption (Mercury, Radium, Radon)
05:25 Last Course (Arsenic, Francium, Fluorine)

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