Questions tagged [poisons]
For questions relating to chemicals used for causing death and/or illness
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How to make a jungle absolutely impenetrable and inimical to 'modern' humans without resorting to magic
As a disclaimer: I'm working on a dark comedy setting with the aim of parodying the likes of Dune, 40k, LOTR, chess, DnD, ASOIF, Eragon etc so accept that things will be outrageous (and likewise, i ...
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How could accelerated human healing allow one person to survive wolfsbane poisoning while another dies in a Bronze Age–level setting? [closed]
I’m working on a scene in my novel in which my main character and her rival both drink the same wine, which has been poisoned with wolfsbane. The MC possesses accelerated healing—not supernatural, but ...
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How could creatures get oxygen in a brine pool?
I’m making a Europa-like moon with a subsurface ocean. It would have a water-ice shell that could be able to freeze small amounts of saltwater over large periods of time, producing brine. This brine ...
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Will water extracted/farmed/distilled from poisonous clouds be (more) potable if 'strong alcohol' was mixed in?
To put this very simply, the clouds are toxic. However, society requires water, and one of the main sources, is cloud-water farming. Another major industry of this society however, is alcohol ...
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How 'high' can a poisonous non-dense gaseous vapour rise?
So my question is going to sound very clunky, so I'm going to do best to break it down.
Basically my setting revolves around a post-apocalyptic sci-fi dystopian society residing at a very high-...
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What could have led to a city/planet that is covered in toxic smog where 'everyone' lives on the top levels of decrepit megastuctures
what circumstances would be necessary for a planet/city where the lower altitudes/lowlands are just a toxic cloudy hellhole inimical to human life.
Basically in my setting, people are living, hint, ...
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Evolutionary advantage of a venom compound that makes pain pleasurable
On the world of Ruquelis, the combination of reincarnation and the drug Hialutabu allows the inhabitants to do some truly awful things to each-other and justify it to themselves as good.
Hialutabu is ...
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What would be the fastest concoction of natural poisons to kill a person?
I am coming up with a character that is able to produce poisons from his own body. He does this by analyzing the DNA of various poisonous animals and plants, and being able to 'manufacture' whatever ...
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Effects of breaking down the oceans plastic within 5 years [closed]
The oceans are full of plastic. In a story about the morals of DNA changes, one scientist meaning well creates a group of super bacteria/microorganisms (afterwards just called bacteria for simplicity ...
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Indium and Gallium Toxicity: Part 2
Note: This is the second part of a question. The first part can be found here.
Incorporating some feedback from the answers I got to the question above, I have made a few changes.
Here is some ...
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Indium and Gallium Toxicity: Part 1 [closed]
I am making a planet and my crust is rich in gallium and its heavy counterpart, indium from a cosmic fluke (gallium and indium are both at a concentration of about 0.01% in the crust). However, most ...
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How to make chocolate safe for Keidran? (Basically Dog-people)
Backstory (skip if desired)
Let's take our cute and self-conscious protagonist, Jayden! (For the people that read and responded to the post about the genetics behind keidran and the colonization of ...
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Would a 4000-year-old booby trap still be poisonous?
I've got a group of characters exploring an ancient ruin who've just set off a classic "darts flying from the walls" booby trap. In theory, when the trap was first built these darts would ...
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How can I give someone a lethal disease?
I am writing a story in which one character will kill another character by inducing a life-taking disease like cancer so that it will not be shown as a murder to anyone and it will be a slow death. I ...
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Can you make effective poisons/acids/flammables from basic ingredients that would be useful in fighting monsters?
Can you make effective poisons/acids/flammables from basic ingredients that would be useful in fighting monsters?
I am writing a story about a MC who goes into Portals to kill monsters (Typical DnD ...
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