#tw: cyanide

[gilliverse]

GILLIVERSE 1 YEAR CELEBRATION

cyanide (@bellamuertes) — favorite character: eduardo 'lalo' salamanca [template credit]

[skankhunt44]

[gray-matter-in-a-teacup]

Cyanide Poison

Let's start by understanding exactly how cyanide kills you. In simple terms, cyanide prevents cells from using oxygen to make energy molecules.

The cyanide ion, CN-, binds to the iron atom in cytochrome C oxidase in the mitochondria of cells. It acts as an irreversible enzyme inhibitor, preventing cytochrome C oxidase from doing its job, which is to transport electrons to oxygen in the electron transport chain of aerobic cellular respiration. Now unable to use oxygen, the mitochondria can't produce the energy carrier adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Tissues that require this form of energy, such as heart, muscle cells, and nerve cells, quickly expend all their energy and start to die. When a large enough number of critical cells die, you expire as well. Death usually results from respiratory or heart failure.

Immediate aymptoms include headaches, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, lack of coordination, and rapid heart rate. Long exposure symptoms include unconsciousness, convulsions, respiratory failure, coma and death.

A person exposed to cyanide may have cherry-red skin from high oxygen levels, or dark blue coloring, from Prussian blue (iron-binding to the cyanide ion). In addition to this, skin and body fluids may give off an almond odor.

The antidotes for cyanide include sodium nitrite, hydroxocobalamin, and sodium thiosulfate.

A high dose of inhaled cyanide is lethal too quickly for any treatment to take effect, but ingested cyanide or lower doses of inhaled cyanide may be countered by administering antidotes that detoxify cyanide or bind to it. For example, hydroxocobalamin, natural vitamin B12, reacts with cyanide to form cyanocobalamin, which leaves the body in urine.

These antidotes are administrated via injection, or IV infusion.

Cyanide is actually a lot more common than you'd think. It's in pesticides, fumigants, plastics, and electroplating, among other things. However, not all cyanide are so poisonous. Sodium cyanide (NaCN), potassium cyanide (KCN), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and cyanogen chloride (CNCl) are lethal, but thousands of compounds called nitriles contain the cyanide group, yet aren't as toxic. They still aren't terribly good for you, so I wouldn't go around ingesting other cyanide compounds, but they're not quite as dangerous as the lethal kind.

Thank you for reading, have a lovely day :)

[dimensional-oscgen]

MOON 6 - Erm oops I forgot this is when I started doing more than just 1 page per update so this is a repost with all of them added in. Once again I forgot moon 5 so it skips from 4 to 6

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[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Gay Poptropicans.

[onnahu]

Fun fact(s) of the day:

The effect rat poison (at least in poland) has on people is like an anti-coagulation medicine but uncontrolled, so you basically just start bleeding and die from internal bleeding. Joy!

After adding cyanide to anything you can bake it bc it still have it's poisonous property after high thermal processing. You can bake a murder cake that will work!

[everythingloveandanimated]

I just realized something. When Lyreth is scared of the idea at being questioned by Nasuada’s interrogators, I don’t think he was scared of being a political prisoner. I think he was scared of dying the same way Sarros did.

“He started to thrash, drumming his heels against the floor. Yellow foam bubbled at the corners of his mouth… his voice dried off into a hoarse croak, and with one final jerk, he fell still.” pg 45

Basically, dying of magical cyanide when being interrogated about the Draumars. Doesn’t sound too appealing.

[taio-kyo]

Over and over

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Inspired by a conversation I had with @corvidae-arsenic

[trlvsn]

i love the comedy of book characters saying something in the entirely wrong tone

[carnage-cathedral]

also yea the fact that that guy is active and fronting again is gonna be a problem because our Dean (the og one not the recent one) remembers all of that shit and it fucked him up so bad that he can't have a brother relationship with any guy now because to him now he can only see a brother relationship as a manipulative tactic being used to try and get close to him and fuck him so like yea that's gonna be a thing. you can act like that's not your fault all you want bro but that is so your fault

[troublcmakcrs]

//thinking about how tweek is more aware of his father's abuse and therefore openly/consciously hates his father more whereas he views his mother as more just passive and complicit, like his father is the one who sparked more fear in him when he was a child

but then a woman will give him a certain doe-eyed look or touch his arm in a certain way, and he's like, "actually i'm now convinced you are my mother in disguise and you're here to get me and now you're inside of me and the only solution is probably to kill myself haha! :')" in a way that he really doesn't get with men

this mostly manifests when interacting with older women or women he views as refined and/or of status, women who hold themselves above in some way, deliberately or otherwise

[daenystheedreamer]

succession is like what if your dad gave you a cyanide pill when u turned 13 and told you to bite down when he gives the signal. and you dont know what the signal is + he never mentions it again + he tells you suicide is for fags

[cyanide-sodapop]

DONT FEEL BAD FOR THE SUICIDAL CATS GOTTA KILL THEMSELVES 9 TIMES BEFORE THEY GET IT RIGHT‼️‼️

[lendmyboyfriendahand]

- Maglor wandering the beach talking to himself

[neonteef]

POV you're smoking and your coworker wants a hit

[very-uncorrect]

Narrator found out who removed the door in the skip button ending rip