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   Neil Harrington  wrote:   
      
   > "someone-who-knows"  wrote in message   
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   >> Rubbish.  HCN kills quickly and is easy to ventilate,  which is   
   >> why the SS chose to use it in the gas chambers:   
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   >>   Cyanide (HCN gas) is notorious as a poison but also is ideal as a   
   >> chemical weapon.  It kills rapidly,  dissipates quickly,  and leaves   
   >> no toxic residue.   
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   >> Source:  page 211 in "Chemical Warfare Agents",  Satu M. Somani,   
   >> Department of Pharmacology,  Southern Illinois University,  School   
   >> of Medicine.  Academic Press 1992.   
      
   > Far from being "ideal as a chemical weapon," it was proven worthless as a   
   > weapon as early as World War I,   
      
   In the open,  because it's slightly lighter than air.  In an enclosed space,   
   it is an ideal weapon.  One of the terrorist threat scenarios analyzed by   
   RAND is the usage of HCN to murder people in a building:   
   http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1731/MR1731.appa.pdf   
      
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