The chemistry laboratories reopen. The time has come for a new contest where each of you can create a new molecule. And for this time we wanted to look for something powerful, something that left its mark: the Strychnine.
Strychnine poisoning can be fatal to humans and other animals and can occur by inhalation, swallowing or absorption through eyes or mouth. It produces some of the most dramatic and painful symptoms of any known toxic reaction, making it quite noticeable and a common choice for assassinations and poison attacks. For this reason, strychnine poisoning is often portrayed in literature and film, such as the murder mysteries written by Agatha Christie.
Ten to twenty minutes after exposure, the body's muscles begin to spasm, starting with the head and neck in the form of trismus and risus sardonicus. The spasms then spread to every muscle in the body, with nearly continuous convulsions, and get worse at the slightest stimulus. The convulsions progress, increasing in intensity and frequency until the backbone arches continually. Convulsions lead to lactic acidosis, hyperthermia and rhabdomyolysis. These are followed by postictal depression. Death comes from asphyxiation caused by paralysis of the neural pathways that control breathing, or by exhaustion from the convulsions. The subject usually dies within 2–3 hours after exposure.
The molecule
Have we managed to leave our mark on your imaginaries? Let's move on to something more exciting: the molecule formula.
Strychnine is a highly toxic, colorless, bitter, crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly for killing small vertebrates such as birds and rodents. Strychnine, when inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the eyes or mouth, causes poisoning which results in muscular convulsions and eventually death through asphyxia.
The formula of strychnine is C21H22N2O2
This time we play hard. A molecule made up of 47 atoms.
This time the game is too heavy and so on this day of heavy rain we decided to change direction, we take this exit of the highway. This is how we see the sign of a hotel, surmounted by a huge house located on a hill less than 50 meters away. This is the Bates Motel and after asking the motel manager, we decide to stop and spend the night. We are the only ones in the motel and perhaps for this reason the manager invites us to dinner with him and his mother. The classic situation where you can say: I was lucky.
Perhaps the no longer young people have understood what we are talking about and perhaps even cinema enthusiasts. This is the beginning of one of the greatest masterpieces of cinema, but we don't want to spoil anything else. We can add that in the film there is someone who moves poisoned with strychnine.
If making a molecule of 47 atoms is not within our reach, paying homage to the film, to compose the molecule we will need the elements that make up the name of the film like an anagram: PSYCO.
All those who comment on this article with their WAX address and who at the deadline of the contest, set for April 18 at 16:00 CEST, will have the 5 elements in their portfolio will receive the PSYCO NFT molecule as a gift.
They therefore need in their wallet:
- 1 element of Phosphorus (15 - P)
- 1 element of Sulfur (16 - S)
- 1 element of Yttrium (39 - Y)
- 1 element of Carbon (6 - C)
- 1 element of Oxygen (8 - O)
The max supply of this NFT will be determined by the number of contest winners + 20 pieces.
To be fair we say that the idea of this contest was born a few months ago after a virtual chat with one of you. Since he is the author of the idea he will be entitled to NFT mint #2 (one of the 20 more), in addition to what he will create in the laboratory by participating in the contest.
Our advice is to start by inserting the comment with your wax address in the comments and in case you are missing some elements, keep checked the market, the auctions and maybe the articles with some updates.
For any question you can write here or in the comments of the Telegram channel.
We also remind you that there are a few hours to go until the end of the Ruthenium giveaway hosted by PVMihalache
The Periodic Table NFT project
The Periodic Table NFT project aims to raise awareness of chemical elements in a modern key, basing the approach on blockchain and Non Fungible Token.
Day after day it will be possible to know the single elements that make up the table, to collect curiosities about each of them and about the table in general.
We are working to be able to learn, in a playful way, also what happens by combining the various elements.
The whole project is based on the collection of NFTs that can be bought on the site https://wax.atomichub.io/market?collection_name=periodicelem&order=desc&sort=created&symbol=WAX or by participating in simple giveaways published on publish0x.
Elements released
- The first 30 elements
- #31 Gallium (max supply 200)
- #32 Germanium (max supply 149)
- #33 Arsenic (max supply 200)
- #34 Selenium (max supply 99)
- #35 Bromine (max supply 200)
- #36 Krypton (max supply 200)
- #37 Rubidium (max supply 249)
- #38 Strontium (max supply 200)
- #39 Yttrium (max supply 149)
- #40 Zirconium (max supply 99)
- #41 Niobium (max supply 200)
- #42 Molybdenum (max supply 200)
- #43 Technetium (max supply 200)
- #44 Ruthenium (max supply 299)
Molecule released
- H2O - Water (max supply 37)
- NaCl - Salt (max supply 64)
- CaC2 - Calcium carbide (max supply 46)
- KMnO4 - Potassium permanganate (max supply 57)
- HCN - Hydrogen cyanide (max supply 59)
- CH2N2 - Diazomethane (max supply 46)
- LiCoO2 - Lithium cobalt oxide (max supply 53)
- LiBH4 - Lithium borohydride (max supply 51)
Celebrity released
- Lavoisier (max supply 149)
- Glauber (max supply 149)
- Marggraf (max supply 149)
- Curie (max supply 149)
Link to save
- Market on atomichub for the purchase of NFTs
- Blog on publish0x to be updated
- Telegram channel
- Discord: in the "all-projects" channel
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