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Australian chemicals company Orica has agreed to buy U.S. sodium cyanide producer Cyanco from an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management for $640 million. Australian chemicals company Orica has agreed to buy U.S. sodium cyanide producer Cyanco from an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management for $640 million. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is…

For nearly two decades, the iconic comic Cyanide & Happiness has captivated audiences far and wide, making it quite impossible to encounter someone unfamiliar with its name. However, if you are one of those people, it is time to get acquainted with the hilarious, shamelessly inappropriate webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick, and Matt Melvin.Cyanide & Happiness is renowned for its fearless approach to controversial topics in a satirical way, usually filled with dark humor. The…

In the recently released movie "Oppenheimer" based on the life of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, there comes a dreadful scene involving actor Cillian Murphy who has essayed the role of the theoretical physicist. Viewers are left shocked at the scene where Oppenheimer is depicted as trying to kill his professor by poisoning an apple on his desk with potassium cyanide. The absolutely shocking scene has left people wondering if it truly happened. The dreadful 'apple scene' from the movie "Oppenheimer", Cillian…

A team of researchers led by Professor Hiroaki Kitagishi from Doshisha University in Japan has developed a synthetic heme-model compound called “hemoCD-Twins” that acts as an antidote for CO and HCN poisoning. The researchers detail the development of this novel antidote in a recent research article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The compound dissolves into two heme models in saline solution, with hemoCD-P capturing CO strongly and hemoCD-I scavenging CN- effectively.Buildings across the…

Once upon a time, when our planet Earth was very young and very new, there was not a single scrap of life on it to be found.Then, somewhere, somehow, some quirk of chemistry happened, and the molecular building blocks of our very first single-celled ancestors emerged: the amino acids and nucleic acids that came together in just the right way to continue a chain reaction that gave rise to life.  We're not entirely sure of the details of this emergence, which took place billions of years ago, and left no trace on the…