On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:36:14 -0000, "Mike" wrote:

antifreeze tastes sweet

So does cyanide I believe.

No, that's the metal acetates - usually lead acetate.

Cyanide is tasteless, but does have a smell. The smell is that of
_bitter_ almonds, which don't smell much like almonds either. The
best way to detect cyanide is to smoke, for you can taste a flavour
difference in tobacco at much lower concentrations than you can smell
the cyanide itself. Friend of mine (a devout smoker) tried very hard
to have smoking made compulsory in his cyanide-handling lab,

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Smert' spamionam