prussic

Definitions

Examples

• The celebrated author just barely outlived his acquaintance Polidori, who committed suicide in 1821 by swallowing prussic acid.

• Exposed to oxygen, the pellets gave off prussic acid, blocking the exchange of oxygen in the blood.

• So let us pity the poor vial of prussic acid dashed down so suddenly, and by so noble a hand, whom mortals call Marat.

• A weapon with the smallest point covered with the matter kills as instantaneously as prussic acid.

• One of his contemporaries said of him that he sometimes mistook his vial of prussic acid for his ink-pot.

• The autopsy revealed the mere fact that Mr. Blair was poisoned by prussic acid, taken into the stomach.

• The cyanide present as hydrogen cyanide or prussic acid (HCy) is practically useless as a gold solvent.