They talk as if a glass of beer was equivalent to a dose of prussic acid.
Arsenic, strychnine, and prussic acid do not nourish the system, but alcohol does, and it is the food value of alcohol that must now be emphasised.
I wonder whether he can tell me whether there is any relationship between these cyanogenetic substances and hydrocyanic acid, which we all know as prussic acid?
Fresh growth of grass is sometimes high in prussic acid content and can cause poisoning of grazing livestock.
In fact, he set about the distillation of laurel water (which contained prussic acid).
Like the utilisation of highly concentrated liquid prussic acid, the pot method has disadvantages.
From 1923, he worked on the catalytic dehydration of formamide to prussic acid in the indigo laboratory, developing this procedure for industrial use.
A group may also be constructed to include the cyanogenic glucosides, i.e. those containing prussic acid.
