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Re:Backyard Cyanide by felipemesquita on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @04:32PM (#43336713)
In NileRed’s video “Does cyanide actually smell like almonds?”[0] he purchases some bitter almonds to measure the amount of cyanide in them. He is also worried about the baseless health benefits claims.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYagO-nup6c

Re:Backyard Cyanide by progmetaldev on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @05:56PM (#43337495)
I love that channel. Especially turning (I believe) nitrile gloves into hot sauce. Some of the chemistry he performs, I would never think of even existing. It's like people that say margarine is one molecule away from plastic, without understanding that all of chemistry works like that.
Re:Backyard Cyanide by sitkack on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @06:51PM (#43337965)
Wait, can we just recycle plastic into margarine? Bubble wrap marmalade?
Re:Backyard Cyanide by userbinator on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @10:15PM (#43339293)
Naturally occuring polymers like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid are indeed very similar to synthetic ones, in that they both contain long hydrocarbon chains of varying length.
Re:Backyard Cyanide by sitkack on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @11:35PM (#43339723)
So we can take a barrel of crude oil and turn it into nacho cheese? What would that entail.