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Cyanide poisoning

Index Cyanide poisoning

Cyanide poisoning is poisoning that results from exposure to a number of forms of cyanide. [1]

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Acetonitrile

Acetonitrile is the chemical compound with the formula.

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Activated charcoal (medication)

Activated charcoal, also known as activated carbon, is a medication used to treat poisonings that occurred by mouth.

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Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

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Alkyl nitrites

Alkyl nitrites are a group of chemical compounds based upon the molecular structure R-ONO.

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Amygdalin

Amygdalin (from Ancient Greek: ἀμυγδαλή amygdálē "almond") is a naturally occurring chemical compound, famous for falsely being promoted as a cancer cure.

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Amyl nitrate

Amyl nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula CH3(CH2)4ONO2.

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Amyl nitrite

Amyl nitrite is a chemical compound with the formula C5H11ONO.

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And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write.

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Antidote

An antidote is a substance which can counteract a form of poisoning.

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Apricot kernel

An apricot kernel is the seed of an apricot, and is often called a "stone".

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Assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali

Lalith Athulathmudali, the former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and Deputy Minister of Defence of Sri Lanka was killed at 8:10 p.m. Sri Lanka Time (2.10 p.m. UTC) on 23 April 1993 in Kirulapana.

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Bent Faurschou Hviid

Bent Faurschou Hviid (7 January 1921 – 18 October 1944) was a member of the Danish resistance group Holger Danske during World War II.

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Bishnupada Mukerjee

Bishnupada Mukerjee (1903–1979) was an Indian pharmacologist, known for his contributions in the fields of pharmacological research and standardization of drugs in India.

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Burn

A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or radiation.

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Carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in too much carbon monoxide (CO).

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Case Closed (season 20)

The twentieth season of the Case Closed anime was directed by Kenji Kodama and Yasuichiro Yamamoto and produced by TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.

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Cerebral hypoxia

Cerebral hypoxia is a form of hypoxia (reduced supply of oxygen), specifically involving the brain; when the brain is completely deprived of oxygen, it is called cerebral anoxia.

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Chaim Widawski

Chaim Widawski (c. 1906—June 1944) was a popular Zionist activist in the Łódź Ghetto during World War II.

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Chisako Kakehi

Chisako Kakehi (born 1947) is a Japanese woman who was sentenced to death for the murders of three men, including her husband, and for the attempted murder of a fourth;, by Agence France-Presse, via the Guardian; published November 7, 2017; retrieved November 11, 2017 she is also suspected of being responsible for at least seven other deaths.

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Cleaning (coinage)

Coin cleaning refers to the process of removing undesirable substances from a coin's surface in order to make it more attractive to potential buyers.

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Codebreaker (film)

Codebreaker (2011), original UK title Britain's Greatest Codebreaker, is a TV film aired on 21 November 2011 by Channel 4 about the life of Alan Turing.

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Cyanide

A cyanide is a chemical compound that contains the group C≡N.

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Cyanide (disambiguation)

Cyanide is a class of chemical compounds.

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Dicobalt edetate

Dicobalt edetate is the coordination compound with the approximate formula Co2(EDTA)(H2O)6.

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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (song)

"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is a hard rock song by the Australian band AC/DC.

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Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German general and military theorist.

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Eunice Pringle

Eunice Irene Pringle (born March 5, 1912, Garden Grove, California — died March 26, 1996) was an aspiring dancer, notable for accusing Los Angeles movie-house owner Alexander Pantages of rape in 1929, resulting in a sensational trial.

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Eva Braun

Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife.

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Francisco Urondo

Francisco "Paco" Urondo (January 10, 1930 in Santa Fe – June 17, 1976 in Mendoza) was an Argentine writer and member of the Montoneros guerrilla organization.

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George Sterling

George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American poet and playwright based in California who, during his lifetime, was celebrated on the Pacific coast as one of the great American poets, although he never gained equivalent success in the rest of the United States.

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Goebbels children

The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels.

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Goodbye Earl

"Goodbye Earl", written by Dennis Linde, is a country music song.

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Halabja chemical attack

The Halabja chemical attack (Kurdish: Kîmyabarana Helebce کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە), also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday, was a massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraq.

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Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 5)

The fifth season of the CBS crime drama series Hawaii Five-0 premiered on Friday, September 26, 2014, and concluded on May 8, 2015 with a two-hour season finale.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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History of the Food and Drug Administration

This article is about the history of the United States Food and Drug Administration.

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Histotoxic hypoxia

Histotoxic hypoxia (also called histoxic hypoxia) is the inability of cells to take up or use oxygen from the bloodstream, despite physiologically normal delivery of oxygen to such cells and tissues.

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Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer.

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Hydroxocobalamin

Hydroxocobalamin, also known as vitamin B12a and hydroxycobalamin, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement.

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Hypoxia (medical)

Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level.

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Ian Stuart Spiro

Ian Stuart Spiro (14 December 19468 November 1992), was an international businessman and commodities broker—as well as a CIA-Contracted intelligence operative, who, in the 1980s was instrumental in U.S. and British supported Middle Eastern intelligence-gathering, high-level hostage negotiation, and surreptitious foreign-policy deal-making.

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ICD-10 Chapter XIX: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

ICD-10 is an international statistical classification used in health care and related industries.

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Irrational Man (film)

Irrational Man is a 2015 American crime mystery drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey and Jamie Blackley.

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Isobutyl nitrite

Isobutyl nitrite, C4H9NO2, is an alkyl nitrite, an ester of isobutanol and nitrous acid.

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J. L. B. Smith

James Leonard Brierley Smith, known as J. L. B. Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968), was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist and university professor.

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March 1901 or 1903 – 22 June 1937), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar.

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Jim Jones

James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious cult leader who initiated and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana.

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Lactic acidosis

Lactic acidosis is a medical condition characterized by the buildup of lactate (especially L-lactate) in the body, which results in an excessively low pH in the bloodstream.

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Leonard Lake

Leonard Thomas Lake (October 29, 1945June 6, 1985) — also known as Leonard Hill and a variety of other aliases — was an American serial killer.

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List of Case Closed volumes (1–20)

Tankōbon volume 1 to volume 20 encapsulates chapters 1 to 200.

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List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication

Drug overdose and intoxication are significant causes of accidental death, and can also be used as a form of suicide.

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List of diseases (C)

This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "C".

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List of Gun Metal Grey characters

Gun Metal Grey is a 2010 Hong Kong police procedural television serial drama produced by TVB.

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List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust

This is a list of major perpetrators of The Holocaust.

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List of poisonings

This is a list of poisonings, both deliberate and accidental, in chronological order by the date of death of the victim(s).

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List of suicides

The following are lists of notable people who died from suicide.

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List of suicides in Nazi Germany

This is a list of suicides in Nazi Germany.

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Mass suicides in 1945 Nazi Germany

During the final weeks of the Third Reich and the war in Europe, many civilians, government officials and military personnel throughout Nazi Germany committed suicide.

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Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (1888–1981) is best remembered for her 1932 discovery that the staining compound methylene blue is an antidote to carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning.

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Mercury poisoning

Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to mercury exposure.

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Methacrylonitrile

Methacrylonitrile (or 2-Methylprop-2-enenitrile), MeAN in short, is a chemical compound that is an unsaturated aliphatic nitrile, widely used in the preparation of homopolymers, copolymers, elastomers, and plastics and as a chemical intermediate in the preparation of acids, amides, amines, esters, and other nitriles.

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Methemoglobin

Methemoglobin (English: methaemoglobin) (pronounced "met-hemoglobin") is a form of the oxygen-carrying metalloprotein hemoglobin, in which the iron in the heme group is in the Fe3+ (ferric) state, not the Fe2+ (ferrous) of normal hemoglobin.

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Methylene blue

Methylene blue, also known as methylthioninium chloride, is a medication and dye.

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Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin

On 6 January 2016, Wayan Mirna Salihin died in hospital after drinking a Vietnamese iced coffee at the Olivier Cafe in the Grand Indonesia shopping mall in Jakarta.

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Musselwhite mine

The Musselwhite mine is one of the largest gold mines in Canada and in the world.

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Nevada Gas

"Nevada Gas" is a short story by writer Raymond Chandler.

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Oasis of Hope Hospital

The Oasis of Hope Hospital is a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico providing alternative cancer treatments to its customers.

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Outline of cardiology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cardiology: Cardiology – branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the human heart.

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Oxygen therapy

Oxygen therapy, also known as supplemental oxygen, is the use of oxygen as a medical treatment.

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Oxygen–hemoglobin dissociation curve

2-Hb dissociation curve is a sigmoidal curve that represents the relationship between O2 concentration and the percentage saturation of Hb.

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Pulse oximetry

Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive method for monitoring a person's oxygen saturation (SO2).

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Sheldon Hawkes

Dr.

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Slobodan Praljak

Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat general who served in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, between 1992 and 1995.

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Sodium nitrite

Sodium nitrite is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula NaNO2.

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Sodium nitrite (medical use)

Sodium nitrite is used as a medication together with sodium thiosulfate to treat cyanide poisoning.

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Sodium nitroprusside

Sodium nitroprusside (SNP), sold under the brand name Nitropress among others, is a medication used to lower blood pressure.

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Sodium thiosulfate

Sodium thiosulfate (sodium thiosulphate) is a chemical and medication.

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Sodium thiosulfate (medical use)

Sodium thiosulfate, also spelled sodium thiosulphate, is used as a medication to treat cyanide poisoning, pityriasis versicolor, and to decrease side effects from cisplatin.

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Sparkling Cyanide

Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the December of the same year under Christie's original title.

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Stella Nickell

Stella Maudine Nickell (born August 7, 1943) is an American woman who was sentenced to 90 years in prison for product tampering after she poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, resulting in the deaths of her husband Bruce Nickell and Susan Snow.

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Suicide pill

A suicide pill (also known as the cyanide pill, kill-pill, lethal pill, Death-pill, or L-pill) is a pill, capsule, ampoule, or tablet containing a fatally poisonous substance that a person ingests deliberately in order to quickly commit suicide.

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Sulfanegen

Sulfanegen is an experimental antidote for cyanide poisoning.

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The Satan Bug (novel)

The Satan Bug is a first-person narrative thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.

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Timeline of the London Underground

The transport system now known as the London Underground began in 1863 with the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway.

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Troponin

bibcode.

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Velvet Assassin

Velvet Assassin is a stealth video game for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360, released in 2009.

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Vilna Ghetto

The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the territory of Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland.

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Waco siege

The Waco siege was the siege of a compound belonging to the Branch Davidians, carried out by American federal and Texas state law enforcement, as well as the U.S. military, between February 28 and April 19, 1993.

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Whitaker Wright

James Whitaker Wright (9 February 1846 – 26 January 1904) was a company promoter and swindler, who committed suicide at the Royal Courts of Justice in London immediately following his conviction for fraud.

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Yiya Murano

María de las Mercedes Bernardina Bolla Aponte de Murano (20 May 1930 - 26 Apr 2014), better known as Yiya Murano, was an Argentinian killer and swindler.

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Zyklon B

Zyklon B (translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s.

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3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase

In enzymology, a 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactions of 3-mercaptopyruvate.

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3-Mercaptopyruvic acid

3-Mercaptopyruvic acid is an intermediate in cysteine metabolism.

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4-Dimethylaminophenol

4-Dimethylaminophenol (abbreviated in medical practice as DMAP) is an aromatic compound containing both phenol and amine functional groups.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_poisoning

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