The word 'cyanide' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a highly poisonous chemical compound that can be found in certain plants and used in some industrial processes. It is often associated with its use as a lethal poison. Example: The forensic team found traces of cyanide in the victim's cup of coffee, confirming that he was intentionally poisoned.
The fastest-acting of all the classic poisons, cyanide, had its day, of course, and the last century also saw the emergence of a host of other less familiar but even more deadly toxins, each more fearsome than the next: sarin, anthrax, botulinum.
I'm not bothered, you know... ...... Lucy thought about slipping some cyanide pills into Ed's water before deciding she'd rather save them for herself.
He killed himself by eating an apple laced with cyanide two years after he had been convicted of having a sexual relationship with a young man from Manchester.
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And older telescopes can detect only strong, simple signals of the sort emitted by small molecules like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, which have two and three atoms respectively.
Time has marked the brand indelibly: Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" describes how the drink changes when you put LSD in it; hundreds of cult members in Guyana demonstrated the consequences of lacing it with cyanide.
What senior executives say and do can worsen the reputational damage caused by the crisis, as was the case for BP following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010, or mitigate it, as Johnson & Johnson did in 1982 when seven people died after taking Tylenol pills that someone had laced with potassium cyanide.
That makes Romanians, normally apathetic about such things, twitchy about any new mining there especially if it, too, involves cyanide, as the new project will.In this section Last tango in Detroit?
Tests on her blood conducted by a private laboratory showed high levels of lead, sulphur, cyanide and zinc.
But as my colleague notes, you need to observe the life cycle of an innovation to judge its merit.It seems that innovation outpaced the regulatory structure and some cyanide laced products got out.
Though the product had been deliberately poisoned with cyanide while on shop shelves the firm's chief executive apologised repeatedly and profusely, production ceased and over 30m bottles were recalled at a cost of some $100m.
