Cadmium acetate thiocyanate

Among the other notations is that acetaldehyde is to be avoided, it being a respiration inhibitor. It is related to ethyl alcohol or ethanol and also to acetic acid, but not necessarily to citric acid as involved in the carboxylic acid or citric acid cycle. Alkaloids are expectedly respiration inhibitors, and anesthetics can have respiration inhibition as a side effect. Aromatic adds such as phenol are bad news, as are arsenate, cyanide, isothiocyanate, and thiocyanate. The heavy metals cadmium, cobalt, copper, ruthenium, vanadate, and zinc are regarded as health risks, if not for respiration, for other reasons. 

Although cadmium sulfide exists in two crystalline forms (hexagonal or greenockite type, and cubic or hawleyite type, qq.v.), an amorphous form may also be synthesised. This phase can reportedly coexist with the other crystalline forms at room temperature. According to Budgen (1924), amorphous cadmium sulfide may be formed either by the adding cadmium oxide to molten potassium thiocyanate, or by heating cadmium thiocyanate with acetic acid in a sealed tube at 250 C. 

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