hydrogen cyanide

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BLOOD POISONS
... can kill) Cyanide. Cyanide (a.k.a. hydrogen cyanide, cyanohydric acid, prussic acid, or bitter almonds) is a potent metabolic poison present in some food crops and other plants. Cyanide is a small ... ., Prunus spp.). In this form, cyanide is nontoxic to the plant; only in the breakdown of cyanogenic glycosides, during animal consumption or digestion, is hydrogen cyanide gas released. For example, cows ...
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CASSAVA
... boiling or squeezing. Some cultivars lack HCN (sweet cassava, makasera; less than 50 ppm of cyanide), but this is highly variable and unreliable. Remarkably, there are certain cultures that show very ... forms, because there is more of the hydrolytic enzyme linarmarase to cause release of the hydrogen cyanide gas. Sweet cassava is widely used and requires no special detoxification process; it can be ...
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Plant Pathology - The Morton Arboretum
... ., Johnson, G. R., and M. A. Dirr.1996. Differential resistance to Entomosporium leafspot disease And hydrogen cyanide potential in photinia. J. Envir. Hort.: 14 (3):154-157. Jacobs, K. A. and M ...
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Paghat's Garden: Pteridium aquilinum
... countries. Raw brackens are certainly toxic to people & livestock, containing ptaquiloside as a carcinogen, besides hydrogen cyanide & sesquiterpene as immediate toxins. Cattle that have grazed large amounts of bracken experience bladder lesions ...
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Passiflora toxicology
... when broken down will quickly release cyanide. Foliage ''Many Passiflora species are cyanogenic (Olafsdottir et al. 1989; Spencer 1988), that is they liberate hydrogen cyanide (HCN) when damaged...Most plants ... the intracellular contents, include the vacular contents, must spill into the intercellular spaces. Because cyanide is toxic to so many species, cyanogenesis acts as a defense against many ...
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Minipurification factors
... Fluoride and cyanide also work (avoid, because they're poisonous), but EDTA does not. I suspect DIECA chelates Fe in a form which cannot produce free radicals. Oxidizing agents Adding hydrogen peroxide (small amounts) to the extraction buffer has little effect. In fact samples with hydrogen peroxide look better than those w/o ...
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... ,Coagulase, Coumestrol, Cryptoxanthin, Cycloartenol, Cytidine, Daidzen, Daphnoretin, Erepsin, Folacin, Formononetin , Genistein, Guanine, Guanosine, Hederagenin, Hentriacontane, Hydrogen- cyanide, Hypoxanthine, Inosine, Inositol, Invertase, Isocytosine, L-Homostachydrine , L-Stachydrine, Limonene,Lucernol, Lutein, Magnesium, Malic-acid ...
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