Definition of cyanide
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Fugu, considered one of the world’s most poisonous fish with venom more deadly than cyanide, can be safely prepared.
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While Turing did not go to prison, he was chemically castrated and died of cyanide poisoning in what was determined to be a suicide two years later.
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The plan was to smuggle cyanide into the prison, where an inmate loyal to The Corporation would slip it into Roque Torres’ drink.
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Remarkably, many of these corporate leaders and companies are still working from the playbook developed by Johnson & Johnson over 35 years ago, when people began dying due to cyanide being maliciously injected into Tylenol pill capsules.
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Tests showed the soil and quarries were contaminated with hazards including cyanide, arsenic, mercury, fluorene, ammonia, phenol and other volatile organic compounds.
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Giant pandas absorbed more than 65 percent of the cyanide present in the shoots.
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To design a hotel with a space like that seemed suddenly as negligent as leaving loaded handguns or cyanide pills outside the door, alongside that standard copy of the USA Today.
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But the fish’s skin, intestines, ovaries, and liver contain the poison tetrodotoxin, which is 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide.
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Origin and Etymology of cyanide
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: any of several compounds containing carbon and nitrogen and including two very poisonous substances
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medical Definition of cyanide
: any of several compounds (as potassium cyanide) that contain the radical CN having a chemical valence of one, react with and inactivate respiratory enzymes, and are rapidly lethal producing drowsiness, tachycardia, coma, and finally death
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