She died suddenly at home at age 42 in 1885 from ingesting
potassium cyanide, a darkroom chemical.
The scene in Grace's kitchen where she is attempting to take
the potassium cyanide has intense psychological and emotional richness for stage or screen.
The cyanide used by Socrates» murderer, the poison favored by German Nazis, is a synthetic chemical combined with another element — hydrogen cyanide or sodium cyanide or
potassium cyanide.
In a second stage devised to obtain any remaining gold and silver particles, the ore, now the consistency of sand, was soaked in watered - down
potassium cyanide, which drew the metals out into a form that could be trapped by trays filled with zinc shavings.
Other dubious cures have included injections of arsenic,
potassium cyanide, and even the radioactive element thorium.
Cool Story Brah, listen hawking, why don't you just take
some potassium cyanide and go to sleep?
«Praljak had a concentration of
potassium cyanide in his blood.