Sentence examples for contact poisons from inspiring English sources

Contact poisons have a long and interesting history.

One such example is aconitine, and it has been suggested that this plant poison has been used in historical cases of contact poisons.

There are slightly more credible stories of contact poisons from more recent times when poison has been added to gloves, boots, the shirt tails of the King of Spain and the pommel of Queen Elizabeth's saddle, all intended to kill through contact with the skin.

Abu Khabab also developed "contact poisons" that could be rubbed on a doorknob or some other common area, and experimented with adding crushed glass to the mixture to help get it into a potential victim's bloodstream, a former WMD case officer at the CIA said.

From a functional point of view, these compounds can act in concert in a multitude of defensive roles, such as contact poisons, glues, anti-healants, repellents or alarm pheromones [for review see 1,6,8].

Some of the stories of poisoned clothes can appear to be more fable than fact, especially when you consider the most famous contact poisoning tale comes from Ancient Greek legend.

Paraquat weed killer has been a popular choice for poisoners because it is relatively easy to get hold of, cheap and very effective, but its use as a contact poison is new to me.

Mr. Guthrie said the substrate — which, in a contact poisoning, could be a substance like hand cream or petroleum jelly — may have prevented the nerve agent from entering the victims' bloodstream in a fatal dose.

The effect could also include killing through coating, asphyxiation and contact poisoning [22].

It's dangerous to ingest aluminum, and in fact the label says that if you swallow deodorant, you should contact poison control right away.

Hydrofluoric acid is a contact poison with greater hazards than many strong acids like sulfuric acid even though it is weak: it remains neutral in aqueous solution and thus penetrates tissue faster, whether through inhalation, ingestion or the skin, and at least nine U.S. workers died in such accidents from 1984 to 1994.