cyanide

"But I didn't let him get away," he said in triumph when he had dropped the clawing insect into the cyanide bottle where death came painlessly.

Lloyd's discovery of the "death bacillus" of the sea toad, and his experiments on it with potassium cyanide, sent his name and that of his university ringing round the world; nor was Paul a whit behind when he succeeded in producing laboratory colloids exhibiting amoeba-like activities, and when he cast new light upon the processes of fertilization through his startling experiments with simple sodium chlorides and magnesium solutions on low forms of marine life.

It is cyanide of cacodyl, and I have carried that small flask of it about with me for months.

Van Heijst, Organization WH: Antidotes for Poisoning by Cyanide, 1993.

The same unexpected pattern of cyanide defense increasing away from the city center also showed up in Boston and New York but not Montreal.

"Cyanide", she said, was a "lovely, pretty name" and had positive connotations as the poison which ended the lives of both Hitler and Goebbels.

We collected unripe (firm and green) and ripe (soft and black) fruits and seeds from laurel cherry growing in riparian forest along the Colorado River at University of Texas Brackenridge Field Laboratory in Austin, Texas, in spring of 2013 and 2014; and we assayed fruit and seed tissues for cyanide. We macerated the entirety of each tissue for each sample in 5-mL distilled water, strained and collected the resulting liquid, and used a Quantofix[R] cyanide test kit (Reference number: 91318; Macherey-Nagel GmbH & Co, Duren, Germany) to measure cyanide concentrations.

Cyanide is a chemical compound possessing highly toxic potential.

It is feared that cyanide has harmful effects on the environment due to inadequate waste water treatment systems, and restrictions on cyanide have been put in place in China as part of environment conservation policies.

Chinese news media said one of the 17 air quality monitoring stations detected hydrogen cyanide exceeding normal levels by 0.08 percent, according to the Tianjin Environment Protection Bureau.

Cofferdams installed around the blast site were reinforced and air quality continued to be closely monitored on Tuesday over fears that rain could react with sodium cyanide, one of the chemicals stored at the warehouse, and release toxic gas.

But the carbon structure of isopropyl cyanide branches off, making it the first interstellar detection of such a molecule, says Rob Garrod, Cornell senior research associate at the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.