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Horrifying Effects  Mike Devlin  We tend to think of poison as a
Shakespearean agent of drama, torn from the pages of Agatha
Christie novels. But the truth is, death is all around us, in
neat little bottles under the kitchen sink, in our drinking
water, and in our bloodstreams. Below are ten of the world’s
most insidious poisons, some exotic and others frighteningly
common.   Hydrogen Cyanide   Although it carries with it a
terrifying stigma, cyanide has a rich and fruitful history. Some
scientists even believe it may have been one of the chemicals
responsible for producing life on earth. Today it is better
known as an agent of death, the active ingredient in the
Zyklon-B the Nazis used to exterminate the Jews in shower rooms.
Cyanide is the chemical used as capital punishment in the gas
chambers of the United States. Those who have come into contact
with it describe it smelling sweetly of almonds. Cyanide kills
by binding to the iron in our blood cells a