There were a number of subsidiary issues, including a passing reference to the dumping of drums of cyanide.
Cyanide is an inhibitor of cytochrome oxidase and known to react specifically with cytochrome a3, the terminal carrier of the chain.
The freezing points of hydrogen cyanide-water mixtures.
However, the glycogen present in miracidia after incubation with cyanide is likely to be hydrolysed to glucose units by uncontrolled glycogen phosphorylase activity after the death of the miracidia.
Hence, the observed reduction in glycogen during incubation of miracidia in the presence of cyanide does not correlate with an active carbohydrate metabolism.
Having exhausted all legal options, he finally orchestrated an intricate plan that culminated in a glass of cyanide and a straw within reach of his mouth.
And about 20 percent worked on the surface, where the ore was crushed and the gold separated, at first in mercury amalgam and after 1894 by the cyanide process.
In the writer's opinion these stand pre-eminent among the fumigants, although hydrocyanic acid possesses the higher lethal effect, whether evolved by the liquid method or by exposing calcium cyanide.
