How is cyanide poisoning people?
The toxicity of cyanide and compounds mainly comes from cyanide. It enters the human body through the respiratory tract, digestive tract and skin, produces hydrogen cyanide, inhibits cytochrome oxidase, prevents it from absorbing dissolved oxygen in the blood, causing paralysis of nerve function, and finally leads to The internal tissues of the human body are rapidly hypoxia and suffocate to death. Cyanide is highly toxic. Oral administration of 0.1 g of sodium cyanide or 0.12 g of potassium cyanide or 0.05 g of hydrocyanic acid can cause death in an instant. If 0.02 ~ 0.5mg / L of hydrogen cyanide gas is inhaled, the respiratory tract is paralyzed; if 0.3mg/L of hydrogen cyanide gas is inhaled, it can cause death within 2~3min. XUCHUAN CHEMICAL(SUZHOU) CO., LTD , https://www.xuchuanchem.com