>Explosivity and toxicity are unrelated.
Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive? Presumably ingesting highly reactive reagents is toxic.
Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive? Presumably ingesting highly reactive reagents is toxic.
Not particularly, no. Some certainly are, but others require a great deal of activation energy to detonate. Nitroglycerine (another explosive medication) is notoriously touchy. But C4 is only mildly flammable; you can heat up your meal by lighting a piece of C4 on fire then put the fire out by smashing it with a hammer; it won't detonate like that.
One of the medicines with the longest history is nitroglycerin (for various heart conditions), which is literally dynamite.