TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoCould gunpowder be chemically addictive for humans ?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down11
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minus-square667@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-22 days agoThe constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. None of these chemicals are psychoactive in humans.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 day agoThings don’t need to be psychoactive to be addictive. 🤦♂️
minus-squareyesman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days ago The constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.
minus-squaresopularity_fax@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoWat inthe FUCK is that?
minus-squareMostly_Gristle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoGorn. Only way to get rid of it is to build a makeshift cannon out of some random stuff you find laying around.
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 days agoBlackpowder. 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder
minus-squarefullsquare@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoapparently ww1 era british soldiers figured out that cordite works like amyl but shittier (more specifically, nitroglycerin part) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abaf/009c8713aadd8accbb03b2b40a93b5c3c77a.pdf
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoAnd in the early days they obtained the potassium nitrate by boiling shit. Might be the opposite of addictive.
The constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. None of these chemicals are psychoactive in humans.
Things don’t need to be psychoactive to be addictive. 🤦♂️
Hooked on phonics?
Wat inthe FUCK is that?
Gorn.
Only way to get rid of it is to build a makeshift cannon out of some random stuff you find laying around.
🤣
Donald Trump last week.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder
apparently ww1 era british soldiers figured out that cordite works like amyl but shittier (more specifically, nitroglycerin part) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abaf/009c8713aadd8accbb03b2b40a93b5c3c77a.pdf
And in the early days they obtained the potassium nitrate by boiling shit. Might be the opposite of addictive.