drew_tt
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just wondering, but when cyanide is used for fish collection, is it used in the form of Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN)? or is it Zinc Cyanide? I dont know where I got the zinc from but I do remember reading something like it...
say you were to do a blood test on a fish for cyanide poisoning (the fish would be dead, of course...), what would be a good reactant?
I dont really have much of any background in chemistry, but hydrogen is always soluble, right? and what about cyanide?
say you were to mix in some Calcium chloride (common product..), wouldnt the calcium knock out the hydrogen in the HCN, and the calcium cyanide would precipitate out? this is assuming cyanide is not as soluble as the calcium, and then the chlorine would dissolve into the blood? if calcium chloride wouldnt work because cyanide is more soluble than the calciu, how about a compound with lead? the lead is more reative than the H, and is very insoluble, and unless the cyanide belongs to the nitrate/acetate/chlorate group, it would precipitate out?
all this is assuming the cyanide used to collect is in the form of HCL though
or would the cyanide concentration be too weak to even detect with a common test? I am very interested in this,but I cannot find any sort of resources or any info on it...
any help is very much appreciated...
Drew
say you were to do a blood test on a fish for cyanide poisoning (the fish would be dead, of course...), what would be a good reactant?
I dont really have much of any background in chemistry, but hydrogen is always soluble, right? and what about cyanide?
say you were to mix in some Calcium chloride (common product..), wouldnt the calcium knock out the hydrogen in the HCN, and the calcium cyanide would precipitate out? this is assuming cyanide is not as soluble as the calcium, and then the chlorine would dissolve into the blood? if calcium chloride wouldnt work because cyanide is more soluble than the calciu, how about a compound with lead? the lead is more reative than the H, and is very insoluble, and unless the cyanide belongs to the nitrate/acetate/chlorate group, it would precipitate out?
all this is assuming the cyanide used to collect is in the form of HCL though
or would the cyanide concentration be too weak to even detect with a common test? I am very interested in this,but I cannot find any sort of resources or any info on it...
any help is very much appreciated...
Drew