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To: presidio9

I think that's cyanide which smells like almonds, but the compound agent amygdalin is found in the seeds of almonds, peach stones, and similar fruit and is common to cyanide, thus the similarities in scents.


59 posted on 01/08/2007 10:53:27 AM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: azhenfud

Yes, but who got a big enough whiff of it to have any idea what it smelled like.


60 posted on 01/08/2007 10:54:24 AM PST by presidio9 (Big hitter, the Lama...)
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