To: ErnBatavia
Per my Merck Index...re: Sodium Cyanide.. "...violent poison! (their excl mark) LD (lethal dose for 50% of a given population) 15mg/kg in rats = .015gr/kg. Rats are not men (but some men are rats) Ergo a gram and a half would kill 50% of 220lb men. Potassium Cyanide 10mg/kg fatal to half a population. 7 lbs x 454 gms/lb KCN is potentially 317,800 50% fatal doses. So yeah, could do some damage in a water supply. Maybe not in LA's water supply with bazillions of gals of water, but in a small city-wide supply, yep.
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Any college Qual/Quant Lab Course student uses NaCN.
This amount of NaCN is NOTHING!!
16 posted on
02/03/2004 8:03:11 PM PST by
TaMoDee
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
So it would qualify as a WMD.
hmmm.
23 posted on
02/03/2004 8:14:29 PM PST by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
So yeah, could do some damage in a water supply. Should be up on CNN any minute now...
58 posted on
02/04/2004 5:22:46 AM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Is it possible that this was used in some gas chambers, in the manner of the Nazis? Hitler was Saddam's idol. I wonder if any of those bodies in the mass graves they've uncovered have cyanide in their systems.
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