Hydrocyanic

Word HYDROCYANIC
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Hyphenation hy dro cy an ic
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Fresh cassava roots contain a poisonous substance called hydrocyanic acid. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Under the proper conditions carbon unites with nitrogen and hydrogen to form the acid HCN, called hydrocyanic acid. ❋ William McPherson (N/A)

It was a medicine called the hydrocyanic or prussic acid. ❋ William Gilmore Simms (1838)

The following are empirical laws still waiting to be resolved into the simpler laws from which they are derived: the local laws of the flux and reflux of the tides in different places; the succession of certain kinds of weather to certain appearances of sky; the apparent exceptions to the almost universal truth that bodies expand by increase of temperature; the law that breeds, both animal and vegetable, are improved by crossing; that gases have a strong tendency to permeate animal membranes; that substances containing a very high proportion of nitrogen (such as hydrocyanic acid and morphia) are powerful poisons; that when different metals are fused together the alloy is harder than the various elements; that the number of atoms of acid required to neutralize one atom of any base is equal to the number of atoms of oxygen in the base; that the solubility of substances in one another depends, (171) at least in some degree, on the similarity of their elements. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Webelements periodic table says that it is 250 billion times more toxic than hydrocyanic acid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The observer cannot know whether or not an atom of the substance has decayed, and consequently, cannot know whether the vial has been broken, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the cat killed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is said that the cause of the rapid effects of hydrocyanic acid is that the pain is so great as to be unbearable by the powers of vitality. ❋ Unknown (2004)

However, due to hydrocyanic acid toxicity A. leucophloea should not be used as a sole feed ❋ Unknown (1996)

We asked David Kennedy with Leaf for Life for his perspective on using dried cassava leaves as a food, since cassava contains substances that produce hydrocyanic acid (HCN) when fresh leaves are eaten or pulverized. ❋ Unknown (1996)

The samples did contain hydrocyanic glucosides and oxalates. ❋ Unknown (1996)

However, uncooked chaya contains hydrocyanic glucosides, which release hydrogen cyanide when eaten. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Leaves often contain toxic substances, of which the most common are oxalic acid, nitrates, glycosides of hydrocyanic acid, and alkaloids. ❋ Unknown (1996)

They contain a high amount of toxic hydrocyanic acid. ❋ Unknown (1993)

However, due to hydrocyanic acid toxicity A. Ieucophloea should not be used as a sole feed (Bhadoria and Gupta 1981). ❋ Unknown (1990)

Young sorghum plants or drought-stunted ones under 60 cm tall contain toxic amounts of hydrocyanic acid (HCN or prussic acid). ❋ Unknown (1981)

Some varieties have a dangerous level of hydrocyanic acid (HCN) in the leaves, pods, and seeds, but this can be dissipated by boiling and changing the cooking water. ❋ Unknown (1981)

But emulsin is a diastase and has the property of breaking up amygdalin, liberating hydrocyanic acid, which is one of the most virulent toxic gases known. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Thus if an animal that has been given amygdalin is then injected with emulsin, hydrocyanic acid will be formed in the blood stream and death will take place at once. ❋ Unknown (1967)

That apart, it is strange that such substances as hydrocyanic acid, mercuric chloride, hydrogen sulphide and others which act as extremely potent poisons on the organism have also been observed to neutralize or "poison" even pure inorganic catalysts such as e.g. finely dispersed platinum. ❋ Unknown (1966)

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