Hello, just wanted to let people know that i tested the cyanide recipe from the Peacefull Pill handbook. The book actually is really short of details, but i spent about a year doing side research. Its really easy once you know how. At least making the cyanide is easy, purifying may not be so easy and i still have not tested that part. What im writing about is what i have actually done.
Basically you mix caustic soda or potash with either urea or cyanuric acid (and potentially any organic substance rich in nitrogen such as dried blood powder). I used caustic soda and cyanuric acid. Its sold as "ph stabilizer" in big tubs, as a pool chemical. So i mixed them in a ceramic crucible and heated them with a butane torch until it glowed red, the chemicals melted and bubbled a lot. Theoretically the bubbles are mostly steam but realistically also have a bit of ammonia. Once the reaction died down i added some crushed charcoal and put a ceramic lid and continued to heat for 10 minutes. I then put the crucible on a metal shelf and let it cool. Then i submerged it in water and stirred it until the contents had dissolved. In the ideal reaction there should be nothing but cyanide left, in practice, there was a lot of unreacted cyanuric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium cyanate, god know what else and charcoal, plus sodium cyanide, all of it dissolved in water.
I tested the presence of cyanide in the water by two independent methods: One, with cyanide test strips i bought online, you dip them in the water and they change color according to the cyanide concentration. They dont work in very alkaline water, that means water with a lot of sodium hydroxide dissolved, so i added some baking soda to the water to make it weakly alkaline. The baking soda basically reacts with the sodium hydroxide and turns it into sodium carbonate, which is still alkaline but not as much. Then i tested it with the strips, they changed color revealing cyanide.
The second test was the famous "prussian blue" test. Basically this takes more chemistry, i prepared a mix of iron sulfate and ferric chloride solution, by dissolving some steel wool in sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, respectively. Onto this acid mix i added drop by drop the water solution containing impure cyanide and a beautiful blue color appeared as the cyanide reacted with the iron. This color is a salt of iron and cyanide ions. Its not really soluble so it sank to the bottom of the container after a few hours.
Theoretically, one can weigh the prussian blue to test how much cyanide was in the original water, and then use it as a source material to make pure cyanide, but im yet to test that. Im posting three pics of the basic type of setup. Its very home made. Perhaps weeks from now ill test this recipe with "organic matter" instead of cyanuric acid, as was done centuries ago,
Pics related: A mix of chemicals with some charcoal, same chemicals being heated, a solution of the product after reacting with iron chloride/sulfate (prussian blue). Its possible to notice the prussian blue as being "granulated", this is because its not really soluble and the particles are sticking together as they fall to the bottom.
Basically you mix caustic soda or potash with either urea or cyanuric acid (and potentially any organic substance rich in nitrogen such as dried blood powder). I used caustic soda and cyanuric acid. Its sold as "ph stabilizer" in big tubs, as a pool chemical. So i mixed them in a ceramic crucible and heated them with a butane torch until it glowed red, the chemicals melted and bubbled a lot. Theoretically the bubbles are mostly steam but realistically also have a bit of ammonia. Once the reaction died down i added some crushed charcoal and put a ceramic lid and continued to heat for 10 minutes. I then put the crucible on a metal shelf and let it cool. Then i submerged it in water and stirred it until the contents had dissolved. In the ideal reaction there should be nothing but cyanide left, in practice, there was a lot of unreacted cyanuric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium cyanate, god know what else and charcoal, plus sodium cyanide, all of it dissolved in water.
I tested the presence of cyanide in the water by two independent methods: One, with cyanide test strips i bought online, you dip them in the water and they change color according to the cyanide concentration. They dont work in very alkaline water, that means water with a lot of sodium hydroxide dissolved, so i added some baking soda to the water to make it weakly alkaline. The baking soda basically reacts with the sodium hydroxide and turns it into sodium carbonate, which is still alkaline but not as much. Then i tested it with the strips, they changed color revealing cyanide.
The second test was the famous "prussian blue" test. Basically this takes more chemistry, i prepared a mix of iron sulfate and ferric chloride solution, by dissolving some steel wool in sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, respectively. Onto this acid mix i added drop by drop the water solution containing impure cyanide and a beautiful blue color appeared as the cyanide reacted with the iron. This color is a salt of iron and cyanide ions. Its not really soluble so it sank to the bottom of the container after a few hours.
Theoretically, one can weigh the prussian blue to test how much cyanide was in the original water, and then use it as a source material to make pure cyanide, but im yet to test that. Im posting three pics of the basic type of setup. Its very home made. Perhaps weeks from now ill test this recipe with "organic matter" instead of cyanuric acid, as was done centuries ago,
Pics related: A mix of chemicals with some charcoal, same chemicals being heated, a solution of the product after reacting with iron chloride/sulfate (prussian blue). Its possible to notice the prussian blue as being "granulated", this is because its not really soluble and the particles are sticking together as they fall to the bottom.
