Timeline for Why do matches work but guns don't fire in the city of Amber?
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| Jul 20, 2017 at 11:12 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | @docwebhead Same for me. I'll never be able to walk from here to someplace I actually want to be... | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 11:07 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | @StigHemmer If the change only affected high-rate reactions, it would have little or no effect on biology. Biology uses those bonds, but the reactions with them are generally slow-running, especially as compared to the ones that let nitrates act as an oxidizer in propellants, or azides act as explosives. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 8:18 | comment | added | Stig Hemmer | The main problem with trying to reason about different chemistry is that any change in carbon or nitrogen chemistry will make Earth humans die on arrival. Our bodies are also "burning things" in order to survive and many of the reactions are extremely fine tuned in terms of reaction energy. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 2:03 | comment | added | docwebhead | Oh, Gods! 40 years? Now I feel really old, and I realize I definitely am not a descendant of anyone of Amber's blood. The Shadows won't ever lie for me. Dammit! | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 19:43 | comment | added | Scath | Hah there older than me :P, I forgot about the jeweller's rogue. Thanks for the information about the spoiler tags. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 19:23 | history | edited | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 19:22 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | @Scath He had ammunition made and bought guns on our Shadow Earth for the assault on Amber -- but the primers and propellant were jeweller's rouge from his own Avalon (or a place sufficiently like it). BTW, spoiler tags don't work in comments, it seems, but these books are forty years old, I doubt spoilers are a big deal. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | Scath | >! Correct me if I am wrong it has been a while since I read this book and >! don't have it with me. Didn't >! Corwin go to a shadow earth and make a >! bunch to come back and go after Eric? | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 16:40 | history | edited | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 15:58 | history | edited | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Correction for match type used by Corwin in the dungeons.
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 15:54 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | So it does -- which also strongly implies that corrosive primers would work, and the reason modern ammunition fails is that the smokeless powder or civilian lead-based primers are inert -- and likely black powder was for the centuries it was current on the Shadow Earth. Editing answer. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 15:28 | comment | added | docwebhead | Note that the matches Corwin uses while in the dungeons of Amber are matchbooks, which tends to suggest modern safety matches. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 13:36 | history | answered | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |