>
> Howard Etkind says:
>
> > Potassium Cyanide as a solid isn't readily absorbed through
> >the skin nor cause systemic posioning from skin exposure.
>
> I used to use potassium cyanide to wash silver nitrate off my hands and
I'm
> perfectly normal. Ask anyone who knows me.
>
> Dick Sullivan
>
Fine so long as you don't have cuts. From memory the lethal dose of
potassium cyanide is not particularly small - as I said I "handled" many
more poisonous materials.
However I don't think it a practice to be encouraged.
Peter Marshall
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