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The 10 Strongest Poisons

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  1. hemlock
    branching biennial herb with large leaves and white flowers
  2. aconite
    any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers
  3. belladonna
    perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine
  4. nothingness
    the state of nonexistence
  5. tetrodotoxin
    a powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish
  6. polonium
    a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor
  7. mercury
    a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
  8. cyanide
    any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN
  9. botulinum toxin
    any of several neurotoxins that are produced by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum; causes muscle paralysis
  10. arsenic
    a very poisonous metallic element
Created on Thu Aug 29 20:44:22 EDT 2013

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