> Actually I think that someone must have tasted it in the past and lived
> to tell the tale! I quote from a Treatise on Chemistry Vol 2 (The
> Metals) by Professors Roscoe and Schorlemmer. Third Edition 1897..
> "Potassium Cyanide has a sharp bitter taste: it is exceedingly soluble
> in water...... etc, etc."
..I recently read an interview with an retired organic chemistry professor
where he expresses it's regrets about the fact that "young" chemists do
not taste (in minute quantities ofcourse) there newly synthesised organic
compounds anymore, like they routinely did in the old days..after all
taste is also an "aspact" of a new compound (albeit subjective..)..
Cor Breukel
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/cor.html
"The Infrared Gallery"
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/ir-gallery.html