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MF3040 Prussic Acid Poisoning

by Johnathon Holman Kraig L. Roozeboom David B. Mengel Dale A. Blasi

Published Date: Mar 2012

Prussic acid is also known as hydrocyanic acid or hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Grazing plants that have produced excess cyanide causes prussic acid poisoning. Sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum–sudangrass crosses, and closely related species are most commonly associated with prussic acid poisoning. 2 p.

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