Poisons salts

Calcium and Barium Sucrates.—The formation of insoluble compounds of sucrose with salts of the metals of the alkaline earths, calcium, barium and strontium has long been known. The use of salts of barium and strontium commercially was proposed and tried out in Europe many years ago but failed to receive approval, perhaps largely on account of the fear of traces of the known poisonous salts in the finished product. The cost of the necessary salts and the difficulty of reconversion into usable form also had great commercial influence. The value... 

Sodium cyanide (1885) n. NaCN. A white deliquescent poisonous salt used in electroplating, in fumigating, and in treating steel. 

Bayen reported that (the poisonous) salt of sorrel (potassium binoxalate), which was used to remove ink spots and to make acidulous drinks, very agreeable and healthy (hence perhaps the name salts of lemon still used for it in England), could be manufactured by peasants from cultivated sorrel Rumex acetosd) as was done in Wiirtemberg, ... 

Quinhydrone 1-8 Alkali, oxidising and reducing agents, complexing agents, proteins Poisons, salts 0.1 Follows theoretical equation, rapid attainment of equilibrium, solution contaminated... 

H2N (CH2]5 NH2. a syrupy fuming liquid, b.p. 178-180 - C. Soluble in water and alcohol. Cadaverine is one of the ptomaines and is found, associated with pulrescine, in putrefying tissues, being formed by bacterial action from the amino-acid lysine. It is found in the urine in some cases of the congenital disease cystinuria. The free base is poisonous, but its salts are not. 

Crystallizes from water in large colourless prisms containing 2H2O. It is poisonous, causing paralysis of the nervous system m.p. 101 C (hydrate), 189°C (anhydrous), sublimes 157°C. It occurs as the free acid in beet leaves, and as potassium hydrogen oxalate in wood sorrel and rhubarb. Commercially, oxalic acid is made from sodium methanoate. This is obtained from anhydrous NaOH with CO at 150-200°C and 7-10 atm. At lower pressure sodium oxalate formed from the sodium salt the acid is readily liberated by sulphuric acid. Oxalic acid is also obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of citric acid and by the oxidation of carbohydrates with nitric acid in presence of V2O5. 

Equip a 500 ml. three-necked flask with a dropping funnel, a mechanical stirrer and a reflux condenser. Place a solution of 72 g. (65 ml.) of redistilled phenylhydrazine (Section IV,89) CAUTION poisonous) in 300 ml. of ether in the flask, stir vigorously, and add 33 g. (26 ml.) of A.R. carbon disulphide slowly during about 30 minutes. A precipitate is formed immediately upon the addition of the carbon disulphide, the mixture becomes warm and the temperature soon approaches the boiling point maintain the temperature just below the b.p. by cooling with ice water if necessary. When the addition is complete, stir for a further 30 minutes, then filter the precipitate at the pump, wash it with about 25 ml. of ether, and spread it upon filter paper for 20 minutes to permit of the evaporation of the ether. The yield of the salt (I) is 92 g. 

The salt is packaged ia 45-kg multiwaH bags or fiber dmms of 45, 170, or 181 kg. It is available ia both powdered and granular forms with densities of 1.04 and 1.44 g/cm (65 and 90 lb/fT), respectively. Only the powdered grade is authorized by and registered with the EPA for use ia pesticide formulations, with the further proviso that it must be tinted blue or green, or otherwise discolored. The word poison appears on all labels together with first-aid information. 

Fluoroacetic acid [144-49-OJ, FCH2COOH, is noted for its high, toxicity to animals, including humans. It is sold in the form of its sodium salt as a rodenticide and general mammalian pest control agent. The acid has mp, 33°C bp, 165°C heat of combustion, —715.8 kJ/mol( —171.08 kcal/mol) (1) enthalpy of vaporization, 83.89 kJ /mol (20.05 kcal/mol) (2). Some thermodynamic and transport properties of its aqueous solutions have been pubHshed (3), as has the molecular stmcture of the acid as deterrnined by microwave spectroscopy (4). Although first prepared in 1896 (5), its unusual toxicity was not pubhshed until 50 years later (6). The acid is the toxic constituent of a South African plant Dichapetalum i mosum better known as gifirlaar (7). At least 24 other poisonous plant species are known to contain it (8). 

Most iron salts and compounds may be safely handled following common safe laboratory practices. Some compounds are irritants. A more serious threat is ingestion of massive quantities of iron salts which results in diarrhea, hemorrhage, fiver damage, heart damage, and shock. A lethal dose is 200 250 mg/kg of body weight. The majority of the victims of iron poisoning are children under five years of age. 

Each type of metallic coating process has some sort of hazard, whether it is thermal energy, the reactivity of molten salt or metal baths, particulates in the air from spray processes, poisonous gases from pack cementation and diffusion, or electrical hazards associated with arc spray or ion implantation. 

Most of them are generally classified as poisons. Exceptions to this rule are known. A notable one is 4-dimethyl aminopyridine (DMAP) (24), which is widely used in industry as a superior acylation catalyst (27). Quaternary salts of pyridines are usually toxic, and in particular paraquat (20) exposure can have fatal consequences. Some chloropyridines, especially polychlorinated ones, should be handled with extra care because of their potential mutagenic effects. Vinylpyridines are corrosive to the skin, and can act as a sensitizer for some susceptible individuals. Niacin (27), niacinamide (26), and some pyridinecarbaldehydes can cause skin flushing. 

Treatment. Treatment of poisoning from soluble barium salts may be preventive or curative (47,51). Preventive treatment involves inhibition of intestinal absorption by administering such soluble sulfates as magnesium or sodium, causing precipitation of barium sulfate in the alimentary tract. 

The precious-metal platinum catalysts were primarily developed in the 1960s for operation at temperatures between about 200 and 300°C (1,38,44). However, because of sensitivity to poisons, these catalysts are unsuitable for many combustion apphcations. Variations in sulfur levels of as Httle as 0.4 ppm can shift the catalyst required temperature window completely out of a system s operating temperature range (44). Additionally, operation withHquid fuels is further compHcated by the potential for deposition of ammonium sulfate salts within the pores of the catalyst (44). These low temperature catalysts exhibit NO conversion that rises with increasing temperature, then rapidly drops off, as oxidation of ammonia to nitrogen oxides begins to dominate the reaction (see Fig. 7). 

The common impurities found in amines are nitro compounds (if prepared by reduction), the corresponding halides (if prepared from them) and the corresponding carbamate salts. Amines are dissolved in aqueous acid, the pH of the solution being at least three units below the pKg value of the base to ensure almost complete formation of the cation. They are extracted with diethyl ether to remove neutral impurities and to decompose the carbamate salts. The solution is then made strongly alkaline and the amines that separate are extracted into a suitable solvent (ether or toluene) or steam distilled. The latter process removes coloured impurities. Note that chloroform cannot be used as a solvent for primary amines because, in the presence of alkali, poisonous carbylamines (isocyanides) are formed. However, chloroform is a useful solvent for the extraction of heterocyclic bases. In this case it has the added advantage that while the extract is being freed from the chloroform most of the moisture is removed with the solvent. 

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