5 tons of lethal cyanide leak from Japanese factory - Polidicks

[QUOTE]About 5 tons of liquid waste containing sodium cyanide capable of killing 125,000 people leaked from a plating factory in Iwate Prefecture, but the factory operator said it has retrieved most of the toxic fluid and received no reports of health issues from nearby residents.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/27/national/liquid-waste-containing-125000-lethal-doses-of-sodium-cyanide-leaked-in-iwate/#.US3ZZjBwocw"]read more[/URL]

There's non lethal cyanide?

5 tons of liquid waste [i]containing[/i] cyanide? If it's a plating factory it's probably in pretty high concentration though.

[QUOTE=Crimor;39732006]There's non lethal cyanide?[/QUOTE] if i'm not totally mistaken cyanide is actually one of the thousands of chemicals found in your every day industrial tobacco-cigarettes, which frankly a lot of people smoke. obviously small traces but still.

[QUOTE=Crimor;39732006]There's non lethal cyanide?[/QUOTE] well, kind of it's in apple seeds and almonds, and those don't kill you i think it was intended to mean lethal concentrations

[quote]received no reports of health issues from nearby residents.[/quote] They're all dead!

What do you manufacture with so much cyanide, anyway?

If you smell almonds, run.

[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;39732256]What do you manufacture with so much cyanide, anyway?[/QUOTE] lots of it is used in gold and silver mining because it can help dissolve them

[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;39732256]What do you manufacture with so much cyanide, anyway?[/QUOTE] Cyanide is used in gold production and the like.

[QUOTE=Crimor;39732006]There's non lethal cyanide?[/QUOTE]Cyanide refers to chemical compounds containing a cyano group; triple-bonded carbon and nitrogen. There's hydrogen cyanide, possibly the most toxic type, and what's in cyanide capsules for the purpose of committing suicide. Then there's ferric ferrocyanide, better known as Prussian Blue, a form of dye and pretty much harmless.

And then you have mercury thiocyanate, which isn't good for you but does cool shit like this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9pioJWTk0[/media] [QUOTE=Inplabth;39733210]Prussian blue is also used for treatment of thallium or radioactive cesium ingestion.[/QUOTE] That I didn't know, pretty damn cool. If radioactive cesium drifts across Finland, I can down the bottle of Prussian Blue we have lying about at the lab :v:

[QUOTE=Void Skull;39732210]well, kind of it's in apple seeds and almonds, and those don't kill you i think it was intended to mean lethal concentrations[/QUOTE] Oh yeah? Well guess what. Almost everybody who has eaten an apple seed eventually died!

[QUOTE=Gekkosan;39732205]if i'm not totally mistaken cyanide is actually one of the thousands of chemicals found in your every day industrial tobacco-cigarettes, which frankly a lot of people smoke. obviously small traces but still.[/QUOTE] I kinda meant it as "non lethal if you get hit by a 5 ton cyanide tsunami" :v:

[QUOTE=Crimor;39732006]There's non lethal cyanide?[/QUOTE] Cyanide is just the name of the -CN group in a molecule, they are usually toxic but a molecule isn't toxic just cause it has the functional group.

[QUOTE=Crimor;39732006]There's non lethal cyanide?[/QUOTE] Cyanide is fairly safe assuming it's bound properly to a molecule and you don't dump it in a concentrated strong acid (so don't eat it, technically you're stomach acid is considered a superacid). [editline]27th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Void Skull;39732210]well, kind of it's in apple seeds and almonds, and those don't kill you i think it was intended to mean lethal concentrations[/QUOTE] It's only found in bitter almonds which are not sold for human consumption.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;39733172]Cyanide refers to chemical compounds containing a cyano group; triple-bonded carbon and nitrogen. There's hydrogen cyanide, possibly the most toxic type, and what's in cyanide capsules for the purpose of committing suicide. Then there's ferric ferrocyanide, better known as Prussian Blue, a form of dye and pretty much harmless.[/QUOTE] I thought Prussian Blue was an old name for potassium cyanide.

Looks like Hanamaki is going to be the new Aokigahara forest

[QUOTE=Crimor;39732006]There's non lethal cyanide?[/QUOTE] I drink cyanide all the ti- [thumb]http://tvrecappersanonymous.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/don2500x338.jpg[/thumb]

[QUOTE=zombini;39735118]I thought Prussian Blue was an old name for potassium cyanide.[/QUOTE]Nah, potassium cyanide is colourless and about as toxic as hydrogen cyanide. EDIT: Actually, potassium cyanide isn't toxic on it's own, it's when it reacts with an acid (usually stomach acid in human victims) to form hydrogen cyanide that it becomes lethal.

and then ETS in mitochondria stops working.

Whoops.