2006-07-11 05:31:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Hydrogen Cyanide smells of bitter almounds, not potassium cyanide. It will however release small quantities of hydrogen cyanide gas if exposed to moisture - giving off the well known bitter almonds smell.
It will also react with the acid in your stomich to form hydrogen cyanide and potassium chloride (if you swallow some). It's very poisones so don't try tasting it yourself! Apparently it has a metallic taste though.
Another story goes as follows:
"Date: July 8 2006
The case is a tragedy, but a doctor says it solved a long unanswered question - what does the deadly poison cyanide taste like?
An Indian man who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste of the fatal toxin, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported on Saturday.
"Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, according to the paper."
taken from http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2006/07/08/1152240534587.html
"Potassium cyanide or KCN is the potassium salt of hydrogen cyanide or hydrocyanic acid. It is a colorless crystalline compound, similar in appearance to sugar, and highly soluble in water. Highly toxic, KCN has a smell like bitter almonds, but not everyone can smell it. It is one of the few substances that form soluble compounds with gold, and thus is used in jewelry for chemical gilding and buffing. It can be used in gold mining to extract the metal from ores, although sodium cyanide is more commonly used. KCN was sometimes used as a rat poison until the 1970s." - wikipedia
2006-07-11 06:40:14 · answer #1 · answered by Engineering_rules 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once a scientist wanted to to know taste of Potassium Cyanide.So he kept it on his tongue & died within a fraction of second.You may be knowing that it is a very very poisonous chemical.During his last moments he said s.... it may be sweet or sour or any other taste.For knowing the taste you have to taste this chemical which may prove fatal.
2006-07-11 13:06:57 · answer #2 · answered by acna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pottasium Cyanide has a bitter acrid taste according to a hastily scribbled suicide note.
2006-07-11 12:50:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about Synade, but Potassium Cyanide smells like bitter almonds and since taste is related to smell it should taste like bitter almonds. If you survive the test please confirm my answer.
2006-07-11 12:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by Grant d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seriously--it is INSTANT DEATH.
Don't even come close to doing it. Nobody has ever tasted a cyanide compound and lived.
2006-07-11 14:48:52 · answer #5 · answered by Roger S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Potassium Cyanide, perhaps? Let me know.
2006-07-11 12:36:20 · answer #6 · answered by bequalming 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
potassium cyanide has an almond like smell but if you pinch your nose??
2006-07-11 12:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by jtech_us 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cyanide takes like almonds i believe
2006-07-11 12:34:20 · answer #8 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death. I've heard that HCN smells like almonds.
2006-07-11 20:37:53 · answer #9 · answered by jsn77raider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DEADLY TASTE
2006-07-11 12:52:33 · answer #10 · answered by sures 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋