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Anyone thinking this might have potential as an unconventional weapon might find it interesting to read Neal Stephenson's Zodiac. The protagonist, a chemist-tu
by EdwardCoffin 4y ago
Anyone thinking this might have potential as an unconventional weapon might find it interesting to read Neal Stephenson's Zodiac. The protagonist, a chemist-turned-environmental-activist, makes some Putrescine (a similarly stinky substance) for self defence.
- xkcd-sucks 4y agoPutrescine and cadaverine actually smell just like... Semen. Gross, overwhelming splooge. But not particularly incapacitating or vomit-inducing, looks like Neal didn't do his research. Bradford pears also smell similar, though tending a bit more fishy. (Grad school, a project next door involved making a whole library of polyamine derived chemical probes, so we got basically all the flavor notes of semen in succession. The lols outweighed the unpleasantness.)
- sokka_h2otribe 4y ago[flagged]