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Most lethal molecule

Anonymous Sat 25 May 13:57:46 2019 No.10671527 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>10671531 >>10671639 >>10671644 >>10671833 >>10671848 >>10671855 >>10672117

Paracelsus said:
>the dose alone decides that something is no poison

Could he have been wrong? Could there be a molecule that would manage to kill an organism even if there was just one of it administered?

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 14:03:17 No.10671531 Report

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>>10671527
No, it would have to have some method of replication like a virus. The most efficient toxins target bottlenecks in the body like neurotransmitters, but you still need many molecules for that to work.

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 14:05:32 No.10671535 Report

Quoted By: >>10673247

I guess a single prion might cause all your other proteins to misfold and eventually kill you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 14:05:37 No.10671536 Report

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>>10671531
Is there a theoretical limit to the size of a single molecule? If not, there's an answer...You could just bash someone with a molecule to death. But a chemical reaction would be more interesting.

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 15:31:59 No.10671635 Report

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>>10671536
There's no theoretical limit, and I really really like this post a lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 15:35:08 No.10671639 Report

Quoted By: >>10673294

>>10671527
A (molecule?) made of strange matter (strangelets)

Eventually it would turn you into strange matter

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 15:36:11 No.10671644 Report

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>>10671527
No, because one molecule could only kill one cell even then, and we’ve got billions. Literally unnoticeable, since we lose and grow new ones constantly.

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:02:15 No.10671833 Report

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>>10671527
The demon protein commonly called Titin can kill you if you try to say its true name aloud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titin

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:06:35 No.10671848 Report

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>>10671527
A Prion. Those things are nightmare fuel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:08:52 No.10671855 Report

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>>10671527
A giant crystal of Francium Fluoride, or the DNA of a virus of your choice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:10:53 No.10671865 Report

Quoted By: >>10673294

You could drop a giant diamond on someone and crush them

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:44:26 No.10671964 Report

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>>10671536
You could consider a plastic bag to be one big molecule. Since you could get suffocated by plastic bag you can get killed by a single molecule.

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:56:18 No.10671999 Report

Quoted By: >>10672005 >>10673274 >>10673294

I can one up you all, neutron stars are basically city sized atomic nuclei, and they could kill you easily

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:58:38 No.10672005 Report

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>>10671999
>could kill you easily
Big talk coming from something 1000 lightyears away

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 17:59:29 No.10672010 Report

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>>10672005
Pull up, nigga

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 18:49:16 No.10672117 Report

Quoted By: >>10672168

>>10671527
The lethal dose is just one molecule then

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 19:12:32 No.10672168 Report

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>>10672117
Wrong. If it kills at any dosage then dosage is irrelevant.

Fucking cunt.

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Anonymous Sat 25 May 2019 19:33:45 No.10672231 Report

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>>10671536
a car tyre is a single molecule

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 02:18:04 No.10673210 Report

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>>10671536
no, and all sorts of polymers are single molecules at large scales
you can get giant fuck-off huge pipes made out of a single molecule

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 02:34:18 No.10673247 Report

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>>10671535
Ditto

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 02:47:59 No.10673274 Report

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>>10671999
They can't easily do anything to me at all.

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Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 02:52:14 No.10673281 Report

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>>10673274
That's what i told ur mom when she showed me her saggy raisin tits

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 02:59:22 No.10673294 Report

Quoted By: >>10673295 >>10673769

>>10671536
>.You could just bash someone with a molecule to death.
>>10671639
>A (molecule?) made of strange matter (strangelets)
>>10671865
>You could drop a giant diamond on someone and crush them
>>10671964
>Since you could get suffocated by plastic bag you can get killed by a single molecule
>>10671999
>neutron stars are basically city sized atomic nuclei,

In any case, Paracelsus seems safe. He never said "the dose decides the bludgeon" or like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 03:04:07 No.10673295 Report

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>>10673294
but he did say that ur mom had a saggy butt after kwanzaa

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 03:12:50 No.10673303 Report

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A single prion would take too long to kill you. Likely this is the source of dementia. Just a bad protein made that can fold.

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Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 09:08:24 No.10673769 Report

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>>10673294
I mean you probably couldn't differentiate between a poison and a bludgeon. It's a question of quantities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 May 2019 11:56:52 No.10673990 Report

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what if we synthesized a giant polymer with reactive poison sidegroups? technically it would just be a single molecule

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