[prairiebreeze]

I dunno. Bio expert on FNC was saying that inhaling it causes pulmonary edema and death within hours. No cure.

If it's mixed in a solution and gets on the skin that's bad too.

Ingesting it, he said, caused severe diarrhea but not necessarily death.

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Prairie

[nina0113]

>>Ingesting it, he said, caused severe diarrhea<<

The castor bean plant is also the source of castor oil. Ricin is frighteningly easy to make - I looked it up a couple of years ago, when that London apartment was found with traces of it, and a bunch of empty DMSO cream jars. Speculation was that they had mixed ricin with the carrier DMSO & spread it on door handles etc., which, if it had worked, would have been almost untraceable. Imagine people dying randomly all over London. Where would you even begin to look?


For more info:
http://www.chemsoc.org/exemplarchem/entries/2002/hook/ricin.htm