How to Use hydrogen cyanide in a Sentence
hydrogen cyanide
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This is mixed with the faint, bitter, almond-like aroma of hydrogen cyanide.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2014
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Thirty raw peach seeds also comes to an ounce and contain around 204 miligrams of hydrogen cyanide.
—Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 30 Jan. 2018
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The last case was in 1999, when Arizona used clouds of hydrogen cyanide to execute an inmate.
—Author: Denise Grady, Jan Hoffman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2018
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Among the purchases, the documents showed, was $2,000 to buy the ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide -- a gas used by Nazis at Auschwitz.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 2 June 2021
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Thirty raw peach seeds also comes to an ounce and contain around 204 milligrams of hydrogen cyanide.
—Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 25 July 2018
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Plus, the human body can process hydrogen cyanide in small doses, so eating a few seeds is not dangerous.
—Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 20 May 2015
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Health officials said that the hydrogen cyanide at current levels is safe.
—Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 1 July 2019
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To measure the ideal conditions for life to form, the researchers filled a vat with hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen sulphite.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2018
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In Arizona, where 115 inmates are on death row, hydrogen cyanide has been deployed before.
—Washington Post, 2 June 2021
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This ice cloud is a hybrid of hydrogen cyanide and benzene, which condensed together.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
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Myrosinase converts the amino acids in these fruits into toxic compounds known as hydrogen cyanide that can be fatal to dogs.
—Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022
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When burned, the toxin can turn into hydrogen cyanide, according to researchers.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
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Large enough to disinfest entire trucks loaded up with furniture, the sheds used Zyklon B to produce hydrogen cyanide gas, the same chemical used by the Nazis in their death camps.
—Jo Caird, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
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The vapor from the counterfeit Kingpen cartridge was also found to contain hydrogen cyanide.
—Conor Ferguson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2019
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What’s left of the compound can then decompose, producing hydrogen cyanide.
—Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 20 May 2015
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The research team identified acetylene, ammonia, ethane, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, water, and high amounts of methanol in the comet.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2021
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Jewish community leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the state to prevent the use of hydrogen cyanide in executions, the same gas that was used to kill Jews during the Holocaust.
—Paul Best, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2022
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The products all contained myclobutanil, a fungicide that can transform into hydrogen cyanide when burned.
—NBC News, 27 Sep. 2019
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Additional analysis will be performed at a different lab to find out if hydrogen cyanide, which is found in a car's exhaust, played a factor.
—Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2021
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The sodium cyanide quickly reacts with moisture in the animal’s mouth, releasing hydrogen cyanide gas.
—National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2017
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That includes heavy metals, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide.
—Rachel Becker, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
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The hot air and combustion products of the fire — including deadly gases like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide — made the stairwells and many hallways untenable.
—New York Times, 8 July 2022
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Fallen Kingdom ended with Maisie (now revealed to be a clone of Lockwood's dead daughter) freeing the remaining caged dinosaurs to save them from a hydrogen cyanide gas leak, over Owen's objections.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
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Together, the two teams immersed hydrogen sulphite and hydrogen cyanide ions in water, in both the presence and absence of UV light, to study their chemical reactions.
—Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2018
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Simple compounds such as hydrogen cyanide and ammonia dissolved and were transformed into amino acids and other complex forms.
—Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
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That collision produced new molecules of hydrogen cyanide in Jupiter’s stratosphere, which the stratospheric winds have been blowing away ever since.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
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Arizona is taking steps to use hydrogen cyanide, the deadly gas used during the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps, to kill inmates on death row.
—Washington Post, 2 June 2021
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No direct measuring of hydrogen cyanide or exposure studies have been done.
—Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 1 July 2019
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The fire spewed various toxic chemicals into the air, including hydrogen cyanide, benzene, chlorine, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds, according to test results from the EPA.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
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Officials said Friday that air monitors detected hydrogen cyanide, benzene, chlorine, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds in the ground-level smoke.
—Selina Guevara, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2023
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