[armymarinemom]

That's a pretty big salt lick. Any experts around to say how many people that would kill?

[mware]

Didn't they use very small chips of this to kill those dogs in that video that was released prior to the war???

[VRWC_minion]

Any experts around to say how many people that would kill?

One, if dropped.

[Axenolith]

Exposed to acid it will evolve Hydrogen Cyanide gas. LD50 for rats is 15mg/kg it could theoretically evolve enough gas to kill ~1400 people. #'s - 7 pounds =3,175,147 mg, mass used = 75 kg.

It would probably kill far less, unless you had a crowd in a confined area with poor ventilation...

[cinFLA]

(The real terroists?)

AGR's sodium cyanide plant
Australian Gold Reagents (AGR) manufactures sodium cyanide at Kwinana in Western Australia with a production capacity of about 65 000 tonnes of liquid sodium cyanide (on a dry weight basis, equivalent to about 200 000 tonnes wet). Sodium cyanide is supplied in liquid solution (30 per cent solid). The raw material ammonia is supplied by Wesfarmers and caustic soda by Nufarm-Coogee. Though more than twice the bulk of the dry form and hence more expensive to distribute, it is generally more competitive by avoiding additional equipment and drying costs. Liquid cyanide was considered by the West Australian Environmental Protection Authority to be more hazardous to transport and until 1996 in Western Australia it was required to be moved by rail. Without railway access, some locations were for a time compelled to use the imported dry form of cyanide.

In 1998 a A$30m expansion doubled production to 70 000 tonnes per year by plant duplication.

In September 2001, the EPA approved production of 25 000 tpa of the solid form