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Iocane (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Inconceivable!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Haha! Jokes on you I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to wits.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One can build up a tolerance to iocaine by gradually ingesting trace doses over time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It comes from Australia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ok so i am new to this https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/really-build-immunity-iocane-powder-162927341.html?guccounter=1

DOES SOMETHING LIKE IOCANE EXIST? As previously noted, iocane is a made-up poison, invented for the story.

Like iocane, arsenic doesn’t have a taste or an odor, and it can be dissolved in liquid.

The major difference between arsenic and iocane powder — and it is admittedly a big difference — is that arsenic doesn’t kill immediately.

When it comes to arsenic, our real-world allegory of iocane powder, it doesn’t appear as though you can build up a tolerance through increasing low-level exposure.

A community located in a village in the Andes appears to have adapted a genetic tolerance to arsenic over the course of thousands of years