How to Use potassium cyanide in a Sentence

potassium cyanide

noun

• The page that listed the fatal dose of potassium cyanide.
  — Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• In the fall of 1982, eight bottles of Tylenol in the Chicago area were found to be tainted with potassium cyanide.
  — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Five to seven milligrams of potassium cyanide can kill a person, and the pills were a far more potent 45 mg.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• One section of it explained how to make potassium cyanide.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• And in 1978, potassium cyanide was mixed into fruit punch in the Jonestown mass murder-suicide in Guyana.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
• The unsolved Chicago-area deaths occurred after the over-the-counter Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules were laced with potassium cyanide.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 10 July 2023
• He was accused of killing Angela, the mother of his six children, by dosing her with potassium cyanide between March 6 and March 15.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• McLemore killed himself while the podcast was still in production, drinking potassium cyanide in 2015.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022
• Both sodium and potassium cyanide are solid salt compounds that can be dissolved in water.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2021
• The unknown poisoner in the Tylenol murders used potassium cyanide, which is 10 times more soluble than sodium cyanide.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• Seven people in the Chicago area died in late 1982 after taking capsules filled with potassium cyanide.
  — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• In Luxembourg, a police officer had murdered his sister and her husband with potassium cyanide purchased on the site.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
• Topsy was fed carrots laced with potassium cyanide, and her feet were placed in conductive copper sandals so she could be electrocuted.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
• That business partner said Craig had recently ordered potassium cyanide and there was no reason for that chemical to be at a dental practice, the affidavit says.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2023
• There’s also a more insidious concern: Those tablets Komang handed out are potassium cyanide.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2018
• In all, authorities recovered eight bottles of Tylenol that contained capsules spiked with potassium cyanide.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Officials bought potassium cyanide instead of sodium cyanide.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2022
• After interviews with employees of the dental practice where James Craig worked, police learned that a package containing potassium cyanide arrived there on March 13, the affidavit says.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• According to the arrest affidavit, Craig is suspected of slipping potassium cyanide and arsenic into Angela's pre-workout shake beginning the morning of March 6.
  — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
• Their specialty was untraceable poisons delivered by ingenious weapons—such as a cigarette packet made in 1954 that could fire bullets filled with potassium cyanide.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• In a 1982 episode that became a textbook example of how to manage a corporate crisis, the company had to scramble after someone tampered with capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol, turning them lethal with potassium cyanide and killing seven people.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• The textbook case for managing a public health emergency was Johnson & Johnson’s response in 1982 after police discovered seven people, all in the Chicago area, died after swallowing a capsule of Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide.
  — Roger Lowenstein, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2020
• Craig ultimately ordered arsenic, which was delivered to the family's home; potassium cyanide to his office; and a toxic plant extract called oleandrin, according to authorities.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024