When Elvis impersonators and soap opera actresses obsess about producing the poison ricin from castor beans and sending envelopes full of it to government officials.
No one cares that I got an e-mail with ricin in it...
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Showing posts with label ricin syndrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ricin syndrome. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2013
Sunday, June 09, 2013
There's A Little Bit Of Chemist In Each Of Us
According to the FBI, the toxic poison Ricin is easily available to Elvis impersonators and soap opera actresses.
In Wikipedia:
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In Wikipedia:
Ricin is easily purified from castor oil manufacturing waste. The aqueous phase left over from the oil extraction process is called waste mash. It would contain about 5–10% ricin by weight, but heating during the oil extraction process denatures the protein, making the resultant seed cake safe for use as animal feed. Ricin can be isolated from fresh seed by chromatographic techniques similar to those routinely used for purification of many other plant proteins.It is those chromatographic techniques that make it so easy for the Elvis impersonators. The actresses tend to use the waste mash.
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