http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/ Molecules: You'd Better Learn to Live With Them Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-192 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:02:00 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-192 Tony- My understanding is that cyanide was definitely used and quite a few containers of Zyklon were found - more than could conceivably be used for delousing. I'm not a Holocaust expert, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia's entry</a> on this formulation has quite a bit of info. Tony- My understanding is that cyanide was definitely used and quite a few containers of Zyklon were found - more than could conceivably be used for delousing. I’m not a Holocaust expert, but Wikipedia’s entry on this formulation has quite a bit of info.

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-191 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:14:46 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-191 Prussian blue is the hydrogen cyanide compxed with ironAs summarized in the classic review by Dunbar and Heintz, the chemical formula of PB is Fe7(CN)18(H2O)x , Zyklon B is the the trade name for HCN adsorbed onto diatomite a porous rock.in the presence of moisture the HCN is slowly released it can kill rodents or lice too long to kill humans but effective for killing lice in clothing over about 6 hours.In the US Gas chambers Potassium Cyanide pellets are dropped into a solution of hydrochloric acid to rapidly generate HCN Zyklon B would not be a feasible way of executing people. Prussian blue is the hydrogen cyanide compxed with ironAs summarized in the classic review by Dunbar and Heintz, the chemical formula of PB is Fe7(CN)18(H2O)x , Zyklon B is the the trade name for HCN adsorbed onto diatomite a porous rock.in the presence of moisture the HCN is slowly released it can kill rodents or lice too long to kill humans but effective for killing lice in clothing over about 6 hours.In the US Gas chambers Potassium Cyanide pellets are dropped into a solution of hydrochloric acid to rapidly generate HCN
Zyklon B would not be a feasible way of executing people.

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-74 Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:12:34 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-74 Yeah. There is actually a white nationalist 14-year old twin sister folk duo (you read right) with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Blue_%28American_duo%29">the same name.</a> Apparently the name is a reference to the fact that some holocaust deniers say that they never found <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue_%28color%29">prussian blue</a> in Nazi gas chambers (which ostensibly forms in the presence of iron and cyanide). Yeah. There is actually a white nationalist 14-year old twin sister folk duo (you read right) with the same name. Apparently the name is a reference to the fact that some holocaust deniers say that they never found prussian blue in Nazi gas chambers (which ostensibly forms in the presence of iron and cyanide).

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-73 Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:56:15 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/09/coumarin-vanilla-flavored-liver-damaging-fabric-brightener/#comment-73 Do you know the connection between Prussian Blue and the Nazis? Do you know the connection between Prussian Blue and the Nazis?

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