Could gunpowder be chemically addictive to humans ?

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• 667@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wat the FUCK is that?

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

    Still not psychoactive.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder

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    • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hooked on phonics?

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Dalacos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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…

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only The Power

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• Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Qwazpoi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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