Comment on What are some slow acting poisons?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
At work I learned that cyanide is actually very dangerous because it accumulates its effects. Like you have a little now and a little later, then suddenly you can’t get up from bed so you call in sick. Its dangerous stuff.
Pretty sure there’s at least one Agatha Christie novel that uses that idea. A little here, a little there…
Although, actually, maybe it was the other way round, like someone was deliberately dosing themselves gradually to build up a tolerance. Something like that.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
cyanide doesn’t accumulate, it can be broken down in some hours. otoh many heavy metals do behave this way, maybe you worked with both at the same time