In 1815 he proved that prussic acid contains hydrogen and not oxygen.
In fact, he set about the distillation of laurel water (which contained prussic acid).
She committed suicide by taking prussic acid (known today as hydrogen cyanide).
Or, perhaps the far more deadly action of cyanogen gas, released from prussic acid!
My opinion is that it was done with prussic acid.
But this time we'll use prussic acid instead of Limburger.
I had got some prussic acid from the chemist's more than a week before.
We had decided to take the prussic acid in our coffee.
I told him to go wash out his mouth with prussic acid and not let Daddy hear him talk that way.
I should fancy it was prussic acid, as she seems to have died instantaneously.