Time to strike antifreeze off your list of usable poisons?

Time to strike antifreeze off your list of usable poisons? (video)

Ethylene glycol is the most common ingredient in automotive antifreeze. But for years, it was used in deadly poisonings.

What made this household chemical so dangerous? And why is it no longer a viable poison?

Credit: The American Chemical Society

Citation: Time to strike antifreeze off your list of usable poisons? (2022, December 27) retrieved 24 April 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2022-12-antifreeze-usable-poisons.html
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