Could gunpowder be chemically addictive for humans ?
from TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 17:59
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sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 14 Dec 19:01 next collapse

Only The Power + Just The Tip

667@lemmy.radio on 14 Dec 19:36 next collapse

The constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. None of these chemicals are psychoactive in humans.

spittingimage@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 19:46 next collapse

And in the early days they obtained the potassium nitrate by boiling shit. Might be the opposite of addictive.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 14 Dec 20:49 next collapse

Blackpowder. But there is also modern smokeless powders that is also called gunpowder. It’s nitrocellulose, sometime nitroglycerine or nitroguanidine and a few stabilizers and fillers.

Still not psychoactive.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder

fullsquare@awful.systems on 15 Dec 00:52 collapse

apparently ww1 era british soldiers figured out that cordite works like amyl but shittier (more specifically, nitroglycerin part) pdfs.semanticscholar.org/…/009c8713aadd8accbb03b2…

yesman@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 20:51 next collapse

The constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.

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sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 15 Dec 14:11 collapse

Wat inthe FUCK is that?

Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 14:46 next collapse

Gorn.

Only way to get rid of it is to build a makeshift cannon out of some random stuff you find laying around.

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 15 Dec 14:57 collapse

🤣

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca on 15 Dec 16:20 collapse

Donald Trump last week.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 15 Dec 15:06 collapse

Things don’t need to be psychoactive to be addictive. 🤦‍♂️

Hikermick@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 21:55 collapse

Hooked on phonics?

fullsquare@awful.systems on 14 Dec 20:07 next collapse

smokeless powder is, sort of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglycerin#Industrial_ex…

Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Dec 23:19 next collapse

No. But who needs chemical addiction when you can be addicted to the feeling of power over life and death it provides?

yaroto98@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 00:48 next collapse

You like reading fantasy? I have a feeling you’d enjoy Powder Mage by Brian McClellan.

Main Character gets his magical powers by snorting gunpowder.

Dalacos@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 02:46 next collapse

Pretty good series, pretty sure the author’s an “acolyte” of Brandon Sanderson, so if anyone reading this likes the Cosmere you might like this series as well.

Been on my “reread” list for a while but the list keeps growing…

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 16 Dec 20:29 collapse

I thought the main character was a chick, but I could be forgetting.

Qwazpoi@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 13:15 collapse

Kill me quick or whatever it’s called that Obama’s step or half bro or whatever was talking about during a documentary. It’s cocaine mixed with gunpowder because gunpowder is apparently a readily available and cheap/free vasodilator. Apparently it makes the cocaine kick slightly more or faster