Concrete bunker in the mountains or aircraft carrier would be the best bets for survival, but I personally would choose the castle. If some kind of crazy apocalypse like this happened, I'd want to live in comfort and enjoy the rest of my days in luxury rather than shriveled up in the mountains or throwing up everyday from sea sickness.
My moat would be filled with sulfuric acid, not water. Id also mix it with honey, vanilla extract, sugar and splash of hot sauce to attract any mosquitoes into it so theyd perish.
Sulfuric acid is one of the most important industrial chemicals. More of it is made each year than is made of any other manufactured chemical; more than 40 million tons of it were produced in the United States in 1990. It has widely varied uses and plays some part in the production of nearly all manufactured goods. The major use of sulfuric acid is in the production of fertilizers, e.g., superphosphate of lime and ammonium sulfate. It is widely used in the manufacture of chemicals, e.g., in making hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfate salts, synthetic detergents, dyes and pigments, explosives, and drugs. It is used in petroleum refining to wash impurities out of gasoline and other refinery products. Sulfuric acid is used in processing metals, e.g., in pickling (cleaning) iron and steel before plating them with tin or zinc. Rayon is made with sulfuric acid. It serves as the electrolyte in the lead-acid storage battery commonly used in motor vehicles (acid for this use, containing about 33% H2SO4 and with specific gravity about 1.25, is often called battery acid).
So you are saying you would pour this into the ground directly around your fortress walls? Don't you think you would get sick by breathing in these fumes??
Perhaps. But, what about the lil' carrot patches and the well that you have within your castle walls? Wouldn't dumping hazardous chemicals around the perimeter of your castle poison the ground water and soil? All in all, this doesn't sound like a very healthy environment. Surely someone will get sick and die soon living in your castle.. Negligible as you would have us believe them to be, the fumes coming off the acid would, at a minimum, cause serious lung problems for your castle dwellers in a short span of time.
Sulfuric acid can also damage buildings and historic monuments, especially those made of rocks such as limestone and marble containing large amounts of calcium carbonate. The acid reacts with the calcium compounds in the stones to create gypsum, which then flakes off and weakens the structure.
The effects of this are commonly seen on old gravestones, where acid rain can cause the inscriptions to become completely illegible. Imagine what would happen to your fortress walls over a short period of time with a concentrated amount of sulfuric acid in your moat. Look at you now! Your castle walls have fallen down...now what??
Id take all of this into consideration and build a foundation, like a pools, out of thick hardened glass. I dont eat carrots, I will not harbor fugitive bunnies, my castle will not be noahs ark, cept maybe for a liger.
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Concrete bunker in the mountains or aircraft carrier would be the best bets for survival, but I personally would choose the castle. If some kind of crazy apocalypse like this happened, I'd want to live in comfort and enjoy the rest of my days in luxury rather than shriveled up in the mountains or throwing up everyday from sea sickness.
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Perhaps. But, wouldn't the rotting corpses of zombies floating in your moat effect your ground water and promote contagion?
Wouldn't the standing water of a moat attract insects like mosquitoes that would siphon zombie blood and then fly over your castle wall and bite you?
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My moat would be filled with sulfuric acid, not water. Id also mix it with honey, vanilla extract, sugar and splash of hot sauce to attract any mosquitoes into it so theyd perish.
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Sulfuric acid is one of the most important industrial chemicals. More of it is made each year than is made of any other manufactured chemical; more than 40 million tons of it were produced in the United States in 1990. It has widely varied uses and plays some part in the production of nearly all manufactured goods. The major use of sulfuric acid is in the production of fertilizers, e.g., superphosphate of lime and ammonium sulfate. It is widely used in the manufacture of chemicals, e.g., in making hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfate salts, synthetic detergents, dyes and pigments, explosives, and drugs. It is used in petroleum refining to wash impurities out of gasoline and other refinery products. Sulfuric acid is used in processing metals, e.g., in pickling (cleaning) iron and steel before plating them with tin or zinc. Rayon is made with sulfuric acid. It serves as the electrolyte in the lead-acid storage battery commonly used in motor vehicles (acid for this use, containing about 33% H2SO4 and with specific gravity about 1.25, is often called battery acid).
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H2SO4 = 0.21 x 10-7 bar meaning it has very little vapor loss so fumes wouldn't be too big of a concern.
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Perhaps. But, what about the lil' carrot patches and the well that you have within your castle walls? Wouldn't dumping hazardous chemicals around the perimeter of your castle poison the ground water and soil? All in all, this doesn't sound like a very healthy environment. Surely someone will get sick and die soon living in your castle.. Negligible as you would have us believe them to be, the fumes coming off the acid would, at a minimum, cause serious lung problems for your castle dwellers in a short span of time.
Sulfuric acid can also damage buildings and historic monuments, especially those made of rocks such as limestone and marble containing large amounts of calcium carbonate. The acid reacts with the calcium compounds in the stones to create gypsum, which then flakes off and weakens the structure.
The effects of this are commonly seen on old gravestones, where acid rain can cause the inscriptions to become completely illegible. Imagine what would happen to your fortress walls over a short period of time with a concentrated amount of sulfuric acid in your moat. Look at you now! Your castle walls have fallen down...now what??
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Id take all of this into consideration and build a foundation, like a pools, out of thick hardened glass. I dont eat carrots, I will not harbor fugitive bunnies, my castle will not be noahs ark, cept maybe for a liger.