DETAILED NOTES ON POTASSIUM THIOCYANATE TO POTASSIUM CYANIDE

Potassium cyanide is usually a harmful toxic compound and it is greatly similar to the crystalline solid of NaCl in visual appearance. Potassium cyanide acts on mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase to impede oxidative phosphorylation and it is a strong inhibitor of cellular respiration. The result of anaerobic metabolism is then lactic acidosis. Acu