Active 2 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 13k times. Improve this question. Jeff Jeff 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. In terms of safety: For a kg human, the lethal dose is estimated at 50 mL. From wikipedia Wild almonds are bitter, the kernel produces deadly cyanide upon mechanical handling, and eating even a few dozen at one sitting can be fatal. While wild almond species are toxic, domesticated almonds are not Given the evidence and the expectation that you won't ingest several kilograms of almonds in a day or so, I'm comfortable in endorsing the almond as safe for consumption.
Improve this answer. If it is indeed so, it is curious that both byproducts of amygdalin catalysis smell the same. I just ask you because I was told that HCN smells like almonds all along my chemistry education. I've amended my answer to address your good point. Justanotherchemist Justanotherchemist 3, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. Maybe a myth that continues due to few people having experience smelling cyanide.
When mashing with dilute sulfuric acid, I smell the cyanide before benzaldehyde takes over. And yes, also for me the HCN and benzaldehyde are very different smells. Partially, yes. Show 4 more comments. Well, apple seeds can indeed be poisonous, but it takes quite a few of them to kill you and only if they have been crushed. Finally, the average adult would need to eat anywhere from to several thousand crushed seeds depending on the apple variety to be at risk of cyanide poisoning.
What do you smell before a stroke? Do almonds have arsenic? You might be confusing arsenic with a different poison: cyanide. Almonds contain amygdalin, a naturally occurring glycoside in seeds which is enzymatically hydrolyzed into hydrogen cyanide — very poisonous.
However, only bitter-almonds have sufficient amounts of amygdalin to produce dangerous doses of cyanide. Are apple seeds good eating? Apple peels and flesh are very healthy and pose no risks to your health. However, chewed or crushed apple seeds release small amounts of cyanide, which is highly toxic. Nevertheless, you would probably need to thoroughly chew and swallow over seeds before you experienced any adverse symptoms.
What is the taste of cyanide? Conan: The almond scent is the smell of gas that results from the potassium cyanide reacting with the acid from her gastric fluids!! If you breathe in too much of it, you'll die!! Everybody Else Conan: [ sweatdrop ] At least, that's what they said in the detective drama Comic Books. Appeared in a Batman comic about Alfred's days working as a British agent; a poisoner made almond tarts to cover up the smell of the cyanide.
Surprisingly Averted in Diabolik : the title character's favourite poison is cyanide, but almond taste was never mentioned. Justified as he normally administers it as gas or by injection, with the two times it was ingested being two showing-off in which it wouldn't have been noticed in a capsule he hid in the fake tooth of his victim and on the pages of a speech given by a journalist with the habit of licking his finger before turning page.
Mike stops his client from eating a Winkies snack because of the bitter almond smell, but it turns out that it was just Winkies's new bitter almond flavored creme filling. He mentions how he loves the slight almond taste, and Aunt May tells him that it came from the poison she laced them with since she figured out that he was an impostor. After Spidey comes to the rescue a tad too late and finds the Chameleon unconscious, Aunt May reveals that she only mixed sleeping pills in them and that she added almond extract just to screw with him.
Strangely, the poison she claimed was in the cookies was arsenic, not cyanide. In The Renegades , Larxene tries to buy cyanide while staying in London, but Zexion convinces the druggist to lie and give her almond oil instead. Later, after the Nobodies have been kicked out of the hotel, the remaining guests are all pleasantly surprised by the almond-flavored porridge they're given for breakfast the next morning.
After a man gulps a shot of whiskey and immediately drops dead, the doctor smears some of the leftover drinks on his palms, rubs them a bit and then sniffs , detecting a scent of cyanide. In the film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Rynn describes a substance that her dying father had given her to put in her mother's tea if she ever came around trying to meddle to "calm her down".
It turns out to be cyanide, and it kills her, but while drinking the tea she commented that it tasted of almonds. Rynn initially thinks it's because of the almond biscuits This is the clue in the final scene between Rynn and her lecherous pedophile neighbor as to which one truly received the poisoned cup of tea. This time, Rynn served the almond biscuits on purpose. In Murder Ahoy! How Holmes identifies the toxic gas generator in Sherlock Holmes Holmes: Note the blue discoloration, the faint smell of bitter almonds.
Stockill killed her daughter, Violet, after recognizing the scent of almond the only thing she is cabable of smelling on recently-killed Christelle's breath. Raymond Chandler : Nevada Gas. The Big Sleep , wherein a side character is poisoned with cyanide in whisky and dies in the span of a single page. Notably, Marlowe calls the cyanide not because of the smell — which is noted — but because the victim vomited. Among other evidence, they find a room with chemistry equipment set up, and a scent of bitter almonds in the air.
Yep, you guessed it, the murderer was making his own cyanide. He doesn't specify what it smelled like, but Jack's undead metabolism lets him sweat blood until it's all out of his system, and the blood-sweat is described as smelling like almonds mixed with rust and raw meat ick. Agatha Christie maybe the tropemaker herself uses this. In Sparkling Cyanide , a wife and later a husband die by spiked champagne. Discworld : In the Assassins' Guild Yearbook, prospective assassins are cautioned not to take an almond slice when visiting the Headmaster's office.
In Night Watch , Lord Winder's food taster with Acquired Poison Immunity initially thinks that a slice of cake is poisoned because of the almonds in it. Used to the advantage of a character in Stephen R.
Lawhead's Empyrion duology, who carries canisters that unleash the scent of bitter almonds so that she can scare off guards with her "cyanide gas". A group of Amateur Sleuths , clearly based on the real-life Vidocq Society, have named themselves 'The Coffee Tastes Like Bitter Almonds' in reference to this trope and just for dark irony, since they usually meet over coffee.
While visiting said club, the Kid Detective main character realizes that an almond cake they're set to share has been poisoned with cyanide because, specifically, it smells like BITTER almonds, rather than ordinary, sweet almonds. Which sparks the interesting question of which the murder-obsessed mystery-freaks poisoned the cake Except for ONE of them, who was also the one to cut the cake, thus making it possible that he specifically picked out an un-poisoned piece for himself.
A German Requiem : Bernie Gunther detects the smell of almonds from the last dying breath of Arthur Nebe, after Nebe bit down on the cyanide capsule that Bernie hid in a strudel. In one of Roald Dahl 's short stories, " The Landlady ", the protagonist is drinking tea with his weird old landlady. He declines another cup because it "tasted faintly of bitter almonds and he did not care for it". Washing with soap and water will help protect people from any chemicals on their bodies.
If your eyes are burning or your vision is blurred, rinse your eyes with plain water for 10 to 15 minutes. If you wear contacts, remove them and put them with the contaminated clothing. Do not put the contacts back in your eyes even if they are not disposable contacts. If you wear eyeglasses, wash them with soap and water. You can put your eyeglasses back on after you wash them. If you are wearing jewelry that you can wash with soap and water, you can wash it and put it back on.
If it cannot be washed, it should be put with the contaminated clothing. Disposing of your clothes: After you have washed yourself, place your clothing inside a plastic bag. Avoid touching contaminated areas of the clothing. An alternative method is to put the clothes in the bag using tongs, tool handles, sticks, or similar objects.
Anything that touches the contaminated clothing should also be placed in the bag. If you wear contacts, put them in the plastic bag, too. Seal the bag, and then seal that bag inside another plastic bag.
Disposing of your clothing in this way will help protect you and other people from any chemicals that might be on your clothes. When the local or state health department or emergency personnel arrive, tell them what you did with your clothes. The health department or emergency personnel will arrange for further disposal. Do not handle the plastic bags yourself. For more information about cleaning your body and disposing of your clothes after a chemical release, see Chemical Agents: Facts About Personal Cleaning and Disposal of Contaminated Clothing.
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