Re: chemistry sci-fi

Madalch wrote:
On May 22, 9:04 am, Bill Penrose <penr...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 21, 9:17 pm, EvilGo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi all, I'm looking for decent, technically detailed, chemistry
specific
science fiction novels to read, any good recommendations would
be really appreciated.
Even the great Asimov couldn't make chemistry interesting to a fiction
audience. The closest he got was an attempted murder by putting
glycerine on the threads of an oxygen cylinder. This was a method of
offing someone that even very few chemists had heard of.

In that book ("A Whiff of Death"), a grad student is also murdered by
someone who replaces a sodium acetate solution with sodium cyanide.
When the student acidifies his solution, the HCN formed kills him.

Wouldn't the smell give it away before death ensues?

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