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s5300 on Dec 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The cyanide tooth is a cold war fairy-tale (2018)

A certain amount of apple seeds can also be turned into cyanide…

KMag on Dec 9, 2022 [–]

I think you're best off extracting the amygdalin from the apple seeds and letting the digestive tract hydrolyze the amygdalin into hydrogen cyanide, glucose, and benzaldehyde.

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