From what little chemistry I remember and all the hazmat classes I've had
to take, I think hydrogen cyanide can be generated with this mix. As we
all know, Baking Soda has a pH that is higher than 7 (neutral); IIRC the pH
of sodium bicarbonate is 10. The principle ingredient of superglues,
methacrylate, is acetone cyanohydrin, an organic acid with a pH of 2, with
a component of hydrogen cyanide. During the reaction of acid and base, the
sodium in the bicarb will bond with a spare hydrogen or two, form a water
molecule or two and release the cyanide radical from its hydrogen bonds.
I'm gonna have to dig out some of my old chem texts and do the math on
this.
I have a cyanide detection device at work; if I can remember to try it,
I'll mix the two together and see what the detector says. I don't remember
getting the "almond" smell from working with Superglues in the past. The
"almond" smell is present a very, very low concentrations (almost less than
lethal) of cyanide. This could be almost as much fun as dropping pennies
into beakers of hydrochloric acid, muriatic comes to mind, just for the
pretty green gas it gives off. The pretty green gas is pure chlorine, and
extremely noxious substance. It is detectable by the human nose at 0.014
ppm (parts per million), 46 ppm will destroy your lungs and mucous
membranes, 430 ppm will kill you in 25 - 30 minutes and levels above 1,000
ppm will kill instantly, so definitely don't try this one at home little
buckaroos.
Buddy
bseifert71@...
> [Original Message]
> From: Denis Dimick
> To: Roger Dill
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> Date: 3/10/2008 3:27:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] Cyanide Gas
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> I must have missed something, you cant make Cyanide with that.
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> Denis
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> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Roger Dill wrote:
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> > Cyanide gas from mixing crazy glue and baking soda? Oh great. Now
> > another
> > thing we have to worry about the terrorists getting their hands onto.
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