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Why HCN not KCN kills?
I have read in wikipedia's article for Potassium cyanide and in there it is written that
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The lethal dose for potassium cyanide is 200-300 mg.[6] The toxicity of potassium cyanide when ingested depends on the acidity of the stomach, because it must react with an acid to become hydrogen cyanide, the deadly form of cyanide. Grigori Rasputin may have survived a potassium cyanide poisoning because his stomach acidity was unusually low.[7]
". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_cyanide
My question is Why HCN not KCN kills? Untill now it had been known to me that it is cyanide ion which kills...
I have read in wikipedia's article for Potassium cyanide and in there it is written that
"
The lethal dose for potassium cyanide is 200-300 mg.[6] The toxicity of potassium cyanide when ingested depends on the acidity of the stomach, because it must react with an acid to become hydrogen cyanide, the deadly form of cyanide. Grigori Rasputin may have survived a potassium cyanide poisoning because his stomach acidity was unusually low.[7]
". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_cyanide
My question is Why HCN not KCN kills? Untill now it had been known to me that it is cyanide ion which kills...