One day Rejd found John with a bottle of prussic acid.
When he was alone in the laboratory he made small experiments on his own account, and it was not long before with some danger he had prepared a little phial of prussic acid.
Heroic was the defence set up by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who tried to prove that an inordinate love of eating apples, pips and all, accounted for the amount of prussic acid found in the victim's body.
In this manner, by the pressure of the vapour of ether, he liquefied prussic gas and sulphurous acid gas; which gases, on being reproduced, occasioned cold.
But his last great piece of pure research was on prussic acid.
Nicotin, the alkaloid of tobacco, is as deadly a poison as prussic acid.
The odor, for instance, may be useful in indicating the presence of prussic acid, of alcohol, of opium, or of phosphorus.
The prussic acid may, however, be separated from it, and leave the oil harmless.
The suspected material should be acidulated with pure sulphuric acid so as to insure the prussic acid being in a free state.
One of the most useful tests for prussic acid, whether in the fluid or volatile state, is the so-called sulphur or Liebig's test.
If the acid is in the liquid form a drop of the prussic acid and the yellow sulphide may be mixed and heated until they thoroughly combine.
A drop of sulphate of iron is then added as before, but all the sulphide must be decomposed or a black sulphide of iron will be produced, even though prussic acid be present, instead of the ordinary blood-red color.
From three to five grains will destroy life almost as rapidly as prussic acid itself, and in the same manner: a dose of five grains has proved fatal.
Inhalation of the vapor of anhydrous prussic acid would immediately cause death.
When the substances looked for are volatile, distillation may be employed to secure them in a state of purity; in this way prussic acid is separated; but in the case of the poisonous alkaloids other means must be adopted.
Until you make it at least as difficult to buy revolvers and ammunition, Mr. Vinson, as a dose of prussic acid!
I call myself a crime doctor, yet I let my patient creep into space with a bottle of prussic acid, and commit the one crime I had to prevent!
Give a mixture of syrup of poppies andprussic acid morning and night, and the ball as yesterday.
The prussic acid has been fairly tried; it has not in the least mitigated the cough, but begins to make the dog sick, and altogether to destroy his appetite.
The owner then yielded to all our wishes, and he was destroyed with prussic acid.
Because it producesprussic acid, which destroys their nervous system.
Because it containsprussic acid, which destroys the nervous system.
Although his looks are placid, He'll take a dose, I fear, ofprussic acid.
Try prussic acid, but pray do not confine it to the toilets of your carrots.
It was prussic acid, she told me--and already she'd poured enough to kill ten men into a tumbler she'd stolen from my cabin on purpose.
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.
This was a real sorrow to her, for she loved beauty; it was a still sadder trial that she could no longer feel it right to indulge herself in the least morsel of arsenic; she sighed for strychnia, and pined for prussic acid.
Such post mortem not having been made, the case, after Professor Aiken's analysis, would have been dropped, because it was impossible that prussic acid could have caused the death.
The stomach was examined chemically by Professor Aiken of the University of Maryland, who reported that he had foundprussic acid, and who testified on the trial that Miss Stennecke had received a fatal dose of that poison.
If, then, the professor did really getprussic acid, without doubt he manufactured it.
But prussic acid is the commonest component in all natural bitters, being found in bitter almonds, apple pips, the kernels of mangosteens, and many other seeds and fruits.
Well, perhaps you are better without it," Alick answered, quietly taking the bottle of prussic acid from her hands and replacing it on the shelf, well barricaded by phials and pots.
It is thought probable that the poison given was prussic acid in some form.
He took the poisons, which consisted of ninety grains of strychnine, one pound of arsenic, and some prussic acid and carbolic acid, away with him.
Chlorodyne, which generally contains both morphine and prussic acid in its composition, is also much abused, especially by women.
Prussic acid was known to the Egyptians, and prepared by them in a diluted form, from the peach and other plants.
And you might as well throw in a shilling's worth of prussic acid," said the broken-hearted lover.
Well, doubtless you know that various plants belonging to different families produce free prussic acid.
A distinguished medical writer thus states the case: "Every physician knows that the agreeable sensations that tempt to the use of tobacco are caused by nicotine, which is a rank poison, as much so as prussic acid or arsenic.
Prussic acid, a violent poison, is sometimes taken by children in eating the pits of stone fruits or bitter almonds which contain it.
Which means prussic acid," said Godfrey, "and not snake poison.
The facts seem to point to suicide; but if he swallowed prussic acid, where's the bottle?
He says it is some very powerful variant ofprussic acid.
I gathered from what he said that ordinary prussic acid, which is deadly enough, heaven knows, contains only two per cent.
I don't know what it was, but it had either prussic acid or white lead in it.
I should fancy it was prussic acid, as she seems to have died instantaneously.
Leonora says that she had that flask, apparently of nitrate of amyl, but actually of prussic acid, for many years and that she was determined to use it if ever I discovered the nature of her relationship with that fellow Jimmy.
How could I have known that, during all the years of our married life, that little brown flask had contained, not nitrate of amyl, but prussic acid?
It is even possible that, if that feeling had not possessed me, I should have run up sooner to her room and might have prevented her drinking theprussic acid.
With regard to the alleged immunity from devouring insects of certain poisonous plants, it has been pointed out that Pangium edule, which abounds in prussic acid, is infested with a grub, and ivy is occasionally eaten by caterpillars.
In America orchard trees infested with insects or fungi have been covered one by one with light tents, and the vapours of prussic acid, burning sulphur, and other poisons allowed to act inside the tent.
We do not hesitate to eat peaches, though we know they owe much of their peculiar flavor to prussic acid.
It is also narcotic and very poisonous, one drop killing reptiles, as if by an electric shock: in this mode of action it is like prussic acid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prussic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
