cyanide
Cyanide is a fast acting poison that blocks cells from using oxygen, found in certain plants, smoke, and industrial chemicals.
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11 matchescyanocobalamin
The vitamin the body absorbs with the most difficulty is also the one it stores longest, so deficiency builds quietly over years.
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A plant compound that contains sugar and produces cyanide.
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The color depends on how much hemoglobin is traveling without oxygen rather than on the percentage, so anemia can hide it entirely.
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A substance being studied in the prevention of cancer.
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An industrial building block for acrylic fiber and hard plastics, not a medicine, with a cyanide-releasing breakdown and a contested cancer record.
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An abnormal state or an ongoing process, and the ending most often mistaken for a second word meaning inflammation.
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A bitter kernel compound sold as a cancer cure under the name laetrile, whose breakdown in the gut releases cyanide.
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A substance taken from a marine organism that may be linked to a specific antigen to boost the immune response to that antigen.
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A substance being studied in the prevention of cancer.
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One simple reaction, a sulfur atom loosely held and easily given away, explains a list of uses that otherwise looks unrelated.
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