Cyanide in a sentence

Sample pretreatment determined by acid reagents, ligands, or preliminary UV irradiation allow cyanide speciation of free cyanide, available cyanide, and total cyanide respectively.

Under the regulations published in Turkey's Official Gazette, sales of a host of substances are now controlled, including hydrogen cyanide, hydrocyanic acid, calcium cyanide, and cadmium cyanide.

Oral ingestion of a small quantity of solid cyanide or a cyanide solution as little as 200 mg, or to airborne cyanide of 270 ppm is sufficient to cause death within minutes.

Silver forms cyanide complexes ( silver cyanide ) that are soluble in water in the presence of an excess of cyanide ions.

The problem, however, is that apricot seeds are naturally high in cyanide and eating more than one or two seeds daily can quickly result in cyanide poisoning.

A fire department spokesperson told the publication that there also are fears that toxic hydrogen cyanide could form in the factory, which stores chemicals including copper cyanide and sulfuric acid.

Excess cyanide residue from improper preparation is known to cause acute cyanide intoxication, and goiters, and has been linked to ataxia (a neurological disorder affecting the ability to walk, also known as konzo ).

Hydrogen cyanide in sufficient quantities ( allowable daily intake : ~0.6 mg) causes cyanide poisoning (fatal oral dose: 0.6-1.5 mg/kg).

Sodium cyanide reacts rapidly with strong acids to release hydrogen cyanide.

Toxicological Profile for Cyanide, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2006 Applications Mining main Cyanide is mainly produced for the mining of gold and silver : It helps dissolve these metals and their ores.

X-ray diffraction shows that in NaCN, for example, the bonds between sodium cations (Na + ) and the cyanide anions (CN − ) are ionic, with no sodium ion associated with any particular cyanide.

Among the contents of the USB were precise instructions for preparing a device for dispersing cyanide agents, proving further the murderous intentions of Hamas to kill anyone regardless of religion, race or gender.

As one of the webcomic's founding members, Wilson said watching Cyanide and Happiness has been a "surreal" feeling almost every day for 20 years.

Cyanide can be produced by certain bacteria, fungi and algae.

EE Business Intelligence, De Ruyter fell sick after his cup of coffee was laced with cyanide at his Megawatt Park office in Sunninghill, Johannesburg.

In a joint statement they said the man is suspected to have planned a serious attack motivated by Islamic extremism, for which he had allegedly obtained the potent toxins cyanide and ricin.

Investigators believe Craig poisoned his wife with arsenic and cyanide in her pre-workout powder.

The horror came to a head in November with the deaths of more than 900 people from cyanide poisoning, a debacle that turned "drinking the Kool-Aid" into a popular phrase.

Wilson said he's also a sucker for macabre, depressing jokes as seen in Cyanide and Happiness.

As the game went on, Cyanide added clever commentary related to the numbers he was announcing, while sporting a bedazzled visor.