I am not attempting to dispose of a cadaver.
That being said, during the siege of Munster in 1534 is was accounted that boiled quicklime was dashed onto the faces of attacking forces. Is this real? Could such an early society create such a caustic substance? What is the history of acidic substances being used in warfare?
its that it was boiling and sticker than just water not that it was caustic 100% acid dont real as a weapon bc this isn't borderland 2 you can just take off what ever the acid gets on and acid is super dangerous to the user and costly to store and move safely in large amounts
but if you just through acid in someone's face you cant jus take off your face unless its the OP gif
>100% acid dont real as a weapon
Have you see victims of muzzy acid attacks? Acid will definitely frick you up, especially if there's not running water around you could use to quickly flush the affected area.
Caustic lime is not acidic.
>Could such an early society create such a caustic substance?
No, it was entirely impossible for them to roast seashells or limestone over fire. That quicklime is a major component in mortar, which they used plenty of, is thus clear evidence of direct divine intervention.
Black person I dont know thats why Im asking.
Yes, it's real and while not as common as boiling water, oil, or heated sand; it was a known tactic of the time.
Yeah, making industrial quantities of quicklime is possible with a few barrels of limestone, a shovel, a hill, and a big ol' pile of wood. It's extraordinarily simple to do. Also a giant pain in the ass by modern standards. Properly slaking the quicklime to get something less nasty takes a lot longer and is dangerous as all Hell if you're sloppy about it. Either way it's a Stone Age technology that humanity figured out how to do on a full industrial scale while the Romans were still running and crying from Anatolia looking for a she-wolf with a room to rent.
Put it in a barrel in a hoarding and dump it on people as they close with the walls, or load a barrel in pretty much any kind of torsion or counterweight engine and fling it in the general direction of the enemy. They'd been using hoardings on walls since the middle ages with everything from boiling oil to human shit to sulfuric acid. Flinging wienertails of said horrible crap at people with siege engines goes back before the advent of writing.
I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
Well, thank you for that. That's a great weight off me mind.
The frick is that clip from
The fly 2
>acid in warfare
Well if you also include Alkalis semen is about ph 7.1-7.5 and was used in Woad facepaint to intimidate the enemy. Given a large enough barrel of semen and enough time it only makes sense that a POW could be melted down into a sticky mess.
basic substance and used all the time by farmers to get rid of animal carcasses.
USDA even recommends it as the way to dispose of animal carcasses. Some people even want to start using it to get rid of human bodies instead of burning or burying, because you can just flush the remaining liquid down the drain with a bunch of water. Of course the funeral industry is against it because it's a very cheap way of going about it and they'd make less money.
it makes great fertilizer.
No way that happened.
How would you deliver something like that? Some kind of slingshot?
>Is this real? Could such an early society create such a caustic substance?
You're... asking if they could cook limestone on a fire?
Is that the kind of damage it would do?
>Could such an early society create such a caustic substance?
Quicklime is produced by heating crushed limestone to around 1,100 degrees Celsius in a furnace
Gee. however could a country producing steel armour and weapons ever manage to make a hot fire?
Sertorius used it in 80BC to dump into caves full of Characitani warriors, so its been around for fricking ages. Essentially its just limestone which has been baked for days at high temps and not particularly hard to make, except for the chance of screaming, unholy death handling the stuff and it reacts extremely nasty when in contact with water.