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potassium cyanide

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po·tas·si·um cy·a·nide

a commercial fumigant.
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Dr Emyr Owen told the inquest his post-mortem examination revealed coronary and respiratory failure brought on by the ingestion of potassium cyanide.
The poison potassium cyanide prevents the extraction of oxygen from blood into tissue.
"If algae in drinking water are exposed to a poison such as potassium cyanide, methyl parathion, or the herbicides Diuron or Paraquat, the algae become unhealthy," said Greenbaum.
The previous, somewhat narcissistic analyses of his own destiny now recede in favor of a focus on an external world of crime, terror, and killing of the innocent, and suddenly the poet reintroduces himself in this ominous atmosphere of "spiders in your mouth," of predilections for "potassium cyanide, white / amanita, little girls."
The dam will also trap mine tailings containing gold, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, iron, manganese, cadmium, selenium, molybdenum, arsenic, mercury and potassium cyanide. This will in turn, make the water toxic and make it inappropriate for agriculture.
Re-plating is a reliable, yet complicated, process requiring a considerable amount of setup, special chemistries that are hazardous (such as potassium cyanide solution) and, in general, a high level of operator skill and training.
And apart from being made up of copper cyanide and sodium or potassium cyanide they have little in common.
Drabkin cyanide-ferricyanide solution, pH 7.0-7.4, was prepared by dissolving potassium ferricyanide (200 mg), potassium cyanide (50 mg), and potassium dihydrogen phosphate (140 mg) in distilled water, making the volume up to 1 liter, and mixing after the addition of 0.5 mL of 250 g/L Brij 35.
Hydrogen cyanide, sodium cyanide, and potassium cyanide are the forms of cyanide most likely to be in the environment as a result of industrial activities.
After trial and error, a set of standards visually representative of slight (50 mg/dl), moderate (100 mg/dl), and gross (200 mg/dl) hemolysis was formulated by adding known amounts of hemoglobin to Drabbins solution (sodium bicarbonate, potassium cyanide, and potassium ferri-cyanide).
She was found dead the next morning, and the medical examiner ascertained that she had died as a result of ingesting a lethal dose of potassium cyanide. The case was ruled a homicide, and the FBI investigated--never solving the crime.
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