Thursday, January 7, 2010

What happens when you consume gunpowder?

Say you mistakingly took flashpowder or gunpowder to be something else and you ended up consuming it, or inhaling it, or snorting it...what would happen? Would you explode? What happens when you consume gunpowder?
no, you would probably puke before that happened, but i would be careful and not burp or fart, it could be fatalWhat happens when you consume gunpowder?
Oh boy, mistook it for a little white powder, did we? I assume you are talking about modern smokeless powder and not the traditional black kind. The smokeless powder is made of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. The nitroglycerin is used to treat a heart ailment called angina, so there may be a drop in blood pressure, depending on how much was consumed.

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