HF (Fluorine - reliably weird)
The series of Breaking Bad chemicals continues (spoilers inside). Previously: phosphine, mercury fulminate. Today: hydrogen fluoride....Posted on March 6, 2008 9:00 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Ricin (Ribosomes are important)
Lots of chatter in the news today about finding ricin in a Vegas hotel room....Posted on February 29, 2008 7:57 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Aflatoxin (You got mycotoxin in my peanut butter! You got peanut butter in my mycotoxin!)
Aflatoxin is a toxin produced by certain funguses that acts on the liver:...Posted on February 15, 2008 10:17 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Phosphine (Things get can get nasty as you go down a group)
Ammonia, or NH3, is a mildly toxic gas (but not that bad - you use it in metabolism). Go down one, though, and you get more lavishly toxic....Posted on February 4, 2008 8:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Oxalic Acid (The painful fate of that tasty antifreeze)
The previous entry on raspberry ketones got me thinking about supplements in general. For the most part they don't cause people problems - which is pretty remarkable, considering a lot of them do have real druglike molecules in them. Most...Posted on January 25, 2008 7:57 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bongkrek Acid (Funny name, unfunny results)
In many parts of the world, what Westerners would call "meat alternatives" are the main source of protein. One such product is tempeh, made from soy. A particular variety, when contaminated with a particular bacterium, can become contaminated with a...Posted on November 27, 2007 8:41 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lewisite (More good common names)
Lewisite is nasty stuff - it's a compound of arsenic with two labile chlorines. As I mentioned yesterday, BAL is its antidote....Posted on October 19, 2007 8:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Strychnine (Is for NMR lovers)
Strychnine is a well-known poison and detective novel trope with a moderately low LD50 (ca 10mg). You find it more often in NMRs these days....Posted on September 13, 2007 8:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nitrobenzene (More toxic fragrance)
Nitrobenzene is a simple enough molecule. It smells just like benzaldehyde - it's really strikingly similar if you've smelled both. If you haven't, it's the artificial almond-cherry flavoring smell....Posted on August 10, 2007 7:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cinnabar (Not delicious)
Cinnabar is an ore containing HgS, or mercury (II) sulfide:...Posted on July 26, 2007 7:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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