Editing Cyanide (section)

====Human poisoning====
{{main|Cyanide poisoning}}
Deliberate cyanide poisoning of humans has occurred many times throughout history.<ref>{{Cite book
|title=Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook
|edition=4th
|last1=Bernan
|publisher=Government Printing Off
|year=2008
|isbn=978-0-16-081320-7
|page=41
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiw2ZzsBvsoC}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=oiw2ZzsBvsoC&pg=PA41 Extract p. 41]
</ref>
Common salts such as [[sodium cyanide]] are involatile but water-soluble, so are poisonous by ingestion. [[Hydrogen cyanide]] is a gas, making it more indiscriminately dangerous, however it is lighter than air and rapidly disperses up into the atmosphere, which makes it ineffective as a [[chemical weapon]].