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What does strychnine mean?

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Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) A very toxic, colourless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide
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It went on to say as well that it is unlikely that aquatic organisms will be exposed to substantial levels of strychnine.
Others combined wine with strychnine, a poison used as a stimulant in small amounts.
In 1867 a Dr Spencer was acquitted of manslaughter after a medication error in which strychnine was dispensed to a patient instead of bismuth.
Her weapon of choice was arsenic or strychnine, poison which she bought from a chemist in Turffontein.
The government has absolutely failed to develop alternatives that would work as a replacement for liquid strychnine.
Some medicines used during the Civil War now are known to be poisons, including arsenic and strychnine.

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