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>Explosivity and toxicity are unrelated. Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive? Presumably ingesting highly reactive
by EE84M3i 5y ago
>Explosivity and toxicity are unrelated.
Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive? Presumably ingesting highly reactive reagents is toxic.
- dogorman 5y ago> Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive? Not particularly, no. Some certainly are, but others require a great deal of activation energy to detonate. Nitroglycerine (another explosive medication) is notoriously touchy. But C4 is only mildly flammable; you can heat up your meal by lighting a piece of C4 on fire then put the fire out by smashing it with a hammer; it won't detonate like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)#Detonation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)#Detonation
- EE84M3i 5y agoSure, but in this context, the drug we're talking about exploded with a drop hammer test, right? That seems more like nitroglycerin than C4.
- lazide 5y agoNitroglycerin is also a therapeutic drug, and only toxic if you overdose - and isn’t used for chemotherapy. They’re tangential properties at best.
- TylerE 5y agoThere are many different kinds of reactivity... chemical, thermal, shock (e.g. hit it with a hammer go boom). One of the medicines with the longest history is nitroglycerin (for various heart conditions), which is literally dynamite.