Cyanide gas can be found in industrial emissions and car exhaust, cigarette smoke and certain papers and plastics as they burn. It is used in metal cleaning operations and as an industrial bug killer.

M-44s, or “cyanide bombs,” are one of the most horrifying methods the program uses for its indiscriminate killing. These inhumane traps spray sodium cyanide into the faces of unsuspecting wildlife ...

Sodium cyanide was one of three substances released into the canal after what the Environment Agency (EA) called a waste disposal incident at Anochrome Ltd. The EA has now installed a temporary ...

A major incident was declared after sodium cyanide and other chemicals leaked into a canal in Walsall 12 August The levels of cyanide in a Walsall canal impacted by a major chemical spill have ...

Federal officials have agreed to take another look at how Washington state regulates a deadly poison — cyanide. The lethal substance is often used to make metals, plastics, dyes, and pesticides ...

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Cyanide binds to the ferric ion on cytochrome oxidase and abruptly halts the electron transport chain and aerobic respiration, producing profound toxic effects. Cyanide also preferentially binds ...

In a lab test of 15 illegal weed vape carts, 13 contained a dangerous additive - and all 15 were contaminated with cyanide ...

On Saturday, a truck ferrying 22 tonnes of sodium cyanide en route to Uganda overturned, spilling its lethal cargo in Kambembe, Rironi. In the chaotic aftermath, residents, unaware of the extreme ...