Found in secret agents suicide pills, used for extracting gold from its ore, and found in dangerously high quantity in African staple food – here’s hydrogen cyanide.
Chemistry in its elements: Hydrogen Cyanide, Chemistry World, 14 September 2011
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Akshat Rathi is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News. He has previously worked at Quartz, The Economist and The Conversation. His writing has appeared in Nature, The Guardian and The Hindu. He has a PhD in chemistry from Oxford University and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.
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