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01-03-2009 | Technical Report
Determination of cyanide in blood by reaction head-space gas chromatography
Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Issue 1/2009
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A method describing determination of cyanide in blood by head-space gas chromatography with electron capture detector was reported. The method involves transformation of cyanide into cyanogen chloride by reacting hydrogen cyanide with chloramine-T on a stick of filter paper in the space above the blood in the head-space vial. The recovery was 84–96% and the coefficient of variation was 3.3–7.2%. The limit of quantitation was about 0.01 mg cyanide/l.