Sentences with phrase «as cyanide»

Its plans for the new Conga Mine included draining the lake and converting it into a tailings pond to collect the toxic mining byproducts, such as cyanide and arsenic.

They protect the site from destructive activities such as cyanide and dynamite fishing while supporting the ability of local fishermen to use sustainable fishing practices.

Fazia, it was the Toluene Diisocyanate in the polyurethane foam that caused the problem, the professor of Chemistry at the local university who specializes in foams said «it is not as poisonous as cyanide».

It is the bitter variety of cassava which has been implicated as the cause of what is known as cyanide intoxication due to improper preparation and overconsumption in some countries in Africa.

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

According to the head of the Romanian Geological Institute, the soil at Rosia Montana could not support the post-mining decantation basin that the company intends to create, as cyanide would easily leak into groundwater.

Little not - Cyanide's brother was meant to be named Preacher, and the judge and social workers all said that was unconventional but not nearly as bad as Cyanide.

A suicide pill (also known as a cyanide pill, kill - pill, lethal pill, Death - pill, or L - pill) is a pill, capsule, ampoule or tablet containing a fatally poisonous substance that a person ingests deliberately in order to quickly cause his / her own life to end.

Astronomers have known that cold, dark interstellar clouds are very efficient factories of complex organic molecules — including a group of molecules known as cyanides.

Not exact matches

Companies» legal counsel and advisers, who perhaps were trained during the cyanide - in - Tylenol days, fall back on old maxims that no longer apply — such as «We will not comment on an ongoing investigation» or «We'll inform the public as soon as when know the complete facts.»

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

The pesticide is not approved for use on plants that are combusted, such as tobacco or cannabis, and is known to emit hydrogen cyanide when heated.

Intervals identified as oxide have displayed greater than 80 % cyanide solubility, suggesting that the mineralization will be amenable to processing by heap leach methods.

Nor would he support the T - 4 program that served as the rehearsal to the Holocaust by testing cyanide showers.

Many stone fruits» seeds, such as peaches, have larger seeds than apples, and their cyanide content (talk about a natural way to limit predation!)

I should also note that it I've read there is some cyanide - inducing glycoside in the blue elderberry stems and leaves, but the berries and blossoms are edible, and as you surf the web you will find endless testimonies of people enjoying elderflower fritters with no ill effect.

Neveah and Abcde barely register as bad baby names anymore, next to names like Cyanide and Felony (Felony is a real name someone in North Dakota put on a baby girl).

Apples are not the only culprit, as cherry pits and peach pits contain cyanide.

- Synthetic amino acid l - methionine: Produced using toxic air pollutants such as hydrogen cyanide.

Because of its appeal to a variety of insects, conventional cotton gets treated with pesticides more than any other crop except coffee.The pesticides used, cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin, are all known to cause cancer, and have been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as the most dangerous pesticides.

This comes as the state DEC revealed elevated levels of arsenic, cyanide and other chemicals were found on a portion of a company site, and is proposing an «expedited cleanup.»

Aside from possible effects on human health, cyanide fishing inflicts damage on the coral reefs where it is employed, as the poison kills the reefs and many of the life - forms that rely on them

Cyanide is a good candidate as a precursor molecule in the life - in - a-freezer model for several reasons.

Chemical reactions do slow down as the temperature drops, and according to standard calculations, the reactions that assemble cyanide molecules into amino acids and nucleobases should run a hundred thousand times more slowly at — 112 °F than at room temperature.

The process relies on inexpensive titania as a catalyst and avoids the side production of cyanide that accompanies propylene oxidation.

And the economic crises that crippled the economies of southeast Asia in the 1990s also set in motion a rapid uptick in environmentally damaging pursuits such as illegal logging and cyanide fishing, according to the World Bank.

«As stocks in one country are depleted, the trade moves on to new frontiers, and cyanide fishing is now confirmed or suspected in countries stretching from the central Pacific to the shores of East Africa.

Meanwhile, hydrogen sulfide, which would have been released in huge amounts by volcanic eruptions, would have mostly stayed in the atmosphere, as the molecule is relatively insoluble in water, and therefore would not have had regular opportunities to interact with hydrogen cyanide.

They found three objects with spectra bearing the imprints of warm gases such as acetylene and hydrogen cyanide, which are present in the early stages of stellar evolution.

Apheloria polychroma, as the millipede is known, also has an enviable trait in the animal world — it's covered in cyanide, ensuring any bird that snacks on the colorful but lethal invertebrate won't do it a second time.

But 55 Cancri e, as the world is known, wouldn't make a super holiday destination with a surface temperature of 2000 °C, and hydrogen, helium, and hydrogen cyanide to breathe.

But in others, there aren't enough laws or enforcers to prevent disturbing, destructive practices, such as fishing with explosives or cyanide.

Most toxic plant compounds, such as strychnine and cyanide, taste bitter.

With a balanced diet, the body can detoxify small amounts of cyanide; but when certain proteins are lacking, cassava consumption in particular causes health problems, such as goitres and blindness.

Class 1 wells handle the most hazardous materials, including fertilizers, acids and deadly compounds such as asbestos, PCBs and cyanide.

This research was presented in a paper entitled «The comet - like composition of a protoplanetary disk as revealed by complex cyanides» by K. Oberg et al., to appear online in the journal Nature on 9 March 2015.

The main mechanisms attributed for biocontrol include: synthesis of secondary metabolites, such as 2,4 - diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4 - DAPG), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), pyoluteorin, pyrrolnitrin, phenazines, cyclic lipopeptides (CLP) and siderophores (6); production of phytohormones, such as auxins, cytokinins and gibberellins; as well as nutrient solubilization traits (nitrogen, phosphorous, iron), which directly favors plant growth and health (7).

But the project is moving forward again with almost the same cyanide - leach extraction plans as the original proposal, without the scrutiny of international funding organizations or attention of organizations that sought to protect the region in the 1990s.

The researchers plan to follow up with studies that include many water molecules and ions at once, as well as with more complex ions than cyanide.

In the chemical toxin category, perchlorate (a naturally occurring chemical, but also a man - made contaminant stemming from production of nitrate fertilizer with certain types of ore serving as the nitrogen source) and tobacco smoke (which contains hydrogen cyanide that can be converted into thiocyanate) are well - researched examples of chemical toxins that are considered goitrogenic because they can interfere with thyroid function.

In addition to goitrogens, crucifers also contain substances called nitriles that can release cyanide into tissues and result in general toxicity at high doses.15 A 2004 study conducted in Japan suggested that massive doses of nitriles, doses that are impossible to obtain from food, would be required in order to result in toxicity.16 This study used behavioral endpoints such as restlessness to judge toxicity.

You're more likely to ingest these trace amounts of cyanide when such foods are consumed raw, as heat breaks down the compounds.

Consuming apricot kernels can result in cyanide poisoning, and the effectiveness of apricot kernels as a cancer therapy has not been demonstrated.

The sweet almond sold commercially (as opposed to the bitter, cyanide - laced almond used to make oil) consists of 49.4 % fat, 21.2 % protein, and 3.9 % sugar.

From all of these studies, our overall conclusion is as follows: you may well benefit from the cooking of flaxseeds as a way of decreasing your cyanide - related risks, but you also may have no compelling reason to do so, since (1) the amount of CGs contained in 1 - 2 tablespoons is relatively small; (2) not all CGs will get broken down by enzymes and converted into hydrogen cyanide; and (3) if hydrogen cyanide does get created, most healthy persons will be able to detoxify it when it is present in such relatively small amounts.

Apple seeds contain a substance called amygdalin that can release cyanide under the right circumstances such as contact with digestive enzymes.

In the event of capture, I will personally be issuing cyanide pills to be placed under the tongue, as so.

In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory.

Rather remove the whole core, as it contain traces of cyanide in the form of a compound called Amygdalin.

Remove the seeds, though, as they contain cyanide and can be toxic to your beloved friend.