Prussic acid is then generated and passes through the tube to the recipient vessel, which is to be charged with liquor potassae.
But beyond all others, the quickest of poisons is hydrocyanic or prussic acid.
The cyanide present as hydrogen cyanide or prussic acid (HCy) is practically useless as a gold solvent.
If this has to be reported it is best done as "prussic acid equivalent to .
Further, Prussic Acid acts on the superficial nerves as an Anodyne when applied externally, which it can hardly do by displacing iron.
Prussic acid, dropped in a concentrated state into the eye of a dog, causes speedy death.
It has been wrongfully extolled as a panacea in Phthisis; but is in fact of no greater use in that disorder than Hyoscyamus, Prussic acid, and other medicines which reduce the pulse.
The breathing of Prussic acid, causing its vapour to be applied to the pulmonary surface, is sufficient to kill.
I see him lay on the ground, and I helped to lift him up, and there was that smell of prussic acid that I knew what he had been and done just the same as when the doctor came and told us.
The oil which first comes over, and which falls to the bottom of the water, has so pungent and penetrating a smell, that it is more like cyanogen gas than hydrocyanic or prussic acid.
The last is the only one of importance in a manufacturing point of view, since from it prussic acid is made.
Oil of bitter almonds is very costly, which is the excuse for substituting the much cheaper article, prussic acid.
This is a pleasant nutty-tasted liqueur; but from the large proportion of prussic acid which it contains, a small quantity only should be taken at a time.
It is essentially the hydride of benzoyl, but it always contains a portion of hydrocyanic or prussic acid, to which it owes its very poisonous properties.
The fruit is wholesome; but the flowers and kernels contain prussic acid, and are poisonous.
Carbon unites with azote, and forms cyanogen, the base of Prussic acid.
Prussine, cyanogen, or carburet of nitrogen, the radical of prussic acid, may also be generated by the union of carbon and nitrogen or azote, in the same manner.
Prussic acid is so very feebly energetic that even water decomposes potassium cyanide.
A solution of potassium cyanide has a powerfully alkaline reaction, a smell like that of bitter almonds, peculiar to prussic acid, and acts as a most powerful poison.
So much as this cannot be said of arsenic, prussic acid, or strychnine.
But on this day Palmer went to Mr. Hawkings’s shop, and, producing a bottle, informed the assistant that he wanted two drachms of prussic acid.
Rees) have this day finished our analysis, and find no traces of either strychnia, prussic acid, or opium.
He first asked for two drachms of prussic acid, for which he had brought a bottle.
Prussic acid is a compound of one atom of hydrogen and one atom of cyanogen.
He showed that cyanogen is one of the constituents of prussic acid; succeeded in determining the composition of cyanogen, and showing it to be a compound of two atoms of carbon and one atom of azote.
He succeeded in demonstrating that prussic acid, the name at that time given to the colouring principle, was a compound of carbon and azote.
That paralysis of the muscles of the throat is one of the symptoms of prussic acid poisoning, you must remember.
There was one drop of liquid at the bottom, which even before Mr. Gryce lifted the bottle to his nose we recognised by its smell to be prussic acid.
Your father has not died from an overdose of chloral as I had at first supposed, but from a deadly dose of prussic acid.
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