If you reacted drugs with pure carbon

What would happen? I don't know to to much about chemistry, but I was thinking earlier and its weird how when a chemical reaction is taking place, there is odor, heat, light, color change, bubbling.. All of these things seem to happen in your brain when you take psychedelics. So, since we are carbon based organisms, what would happen if we somehow reacted an LSD with carbon? Or any other type of drug? Would we be able to see how it will affect the organism without using an organism?

I'm sure someone knows enough about chemistry here to answer this

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Probably nothing fancy would happen. Carbon itself is not very reactive and drugs usually don't have aggressively reactive groups anywhere. Also, we may be carbon based organisms, but carbon chains are not very reactive just by themselves (unless you consider contact with strong oxidizers, and drugs are generally not anything like this), they usually serve as a backbone to carry more reactive groups together that do all the chemical jazz. Also, reactions with pure carbon don't really reflect how carbon reacts in the organism since you don't find it its purest form there but rather in combination with hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and other elements which make the properties of the resulting compounds very different from pure carbon.

I suppose if you poured LSD solution onto a diamond, nothing would happen. If you run it through charcoal, you might bind up some of the molecules. Not sure exactly what you are trying to figure out.

high|hgih said:

What would happen? I don't know to to much about chemistry, but I was thinking earlier and its weird how when a chemical reaction is taking place, there is odor, heat, light, color change, bubbling.. All of these things seem to happen in your brain when you take psychedelics. So, since we are carbon based organisms, what would happen if we somehow reacted an LSD with carbon? Or any other type of drug? Would we be able to see how it will affect the organism without using an organism?

I'm sure someone knows enough about chemistry here to answer this

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Sorry, but that is how Hollywood portrays chemistry. The most amazing diverse chemistry occurs every day around (and in!) us and all living things at tremendous speed and intensity, and yet its effects are quite subtle ... except of course when you're back from Wendy's and your s.o. beats you to the john ... cn

high|hgih said:

What would happen? I don't know to to much about chemistry, but I was thinking earlier and its weird how when a chemical reaction is taking place, there is odor, heat, light, color change, bubbling.. All of these things seem to happen in your brain when you take psychedelics. So, since we are carbon based organisms, what would happen if we somehow reacted an LSD with carbon? Or any other type of drug? Would we be able to see how it will affect the organism without using an organism?

I'm sure someone knows enough about chemistry here to answer this

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The experiment you speak of is today done using Super Computers. They use complex algorithms that model the effects of chemicals on organic compounds. This technology is used to help create many of the pharmaceutical drugs developed every year.

I had the same notion once. I poured half an ounce of liquid LSD over a few crushed up charcoal briquettes in a two gallon bucket. I put the top on after the bubbling commenced and the next day I found a perfect, golden yellow gouda cheese in the bucket

I figured I wasn't onto anything, I forgot that DNA has a lot to do with us as organisms, maybe why drugs effect each person differently? I don't know, I need to read about this. Anyways, Ahh... Be back later, I'm posting more and reading about how carbon based organisms even work.

Okay so, basically, for some reason, carbon is able to bond very easily with carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur. Why? Is this the mystery? Why carbon is able to make chains and bond everything else to work together?
I did a bit of reading. It so strange.. How did carbon just.. ZIPPPPP and cause consciousness. I guess thats just it though no one really knows.. But yeah there are to many other things between carbon and us to even have any kind of an idea of what drugs do to us purely based off of what it does to carbon.

carbon makes covalent bonds readily with a wide array of other elements.

it's just friendly like that.

not like argon. argon is a stuck up bitch.

oxygen is a slut though, and is always down for a threeway.

carbon didnt cause consciousness, carbon and oxygen;s relaxed morals and readiness to experiment with new combinations resulted in life. LIFE fucked reproduced, mutated, and expanded, eventually some critters got really big but dumb as dirt, while other critters got smarter and learned to make tools.

makinf tools broiught greater success than being really strong, so the smart monkeys got more tail. eventually the smartness reached it's apex, and now dumbass douches and tools get more pussy than tool users and tool makers.

soon humanity shall regress to a simple stage of evolution where we will all live in caves, and barely manage to keep our fires burning, but our collars will ALWAYS be popped. cuz that shit is tight.

evolution sucks.

Dr Kynes said:

carbon makes covalent bonds readily with a wide array of other elements.

it's just friendly like that.

not like argon. argon is a stuck up bitch.

oxygen is a slut though, and is always down for a threeway.

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mmmhh ... MMMHHHHH http://www.kasuku.ch/pdf/monde_etrange_atomes/EN_amazing_world_atoms.pdf