Toxicologist: Sodium Azide Readily Available Online
According to a Northeastern University professor, the chemical that may have been used by a 25-year-old Boston University graduate student to take her own life Monday is easy to find.
The toxic substance that officials say may have been ingested by a Boston University doctoral student when she apparently took her own life at her South End brownstone is inexpensive and readily available online, according to a toxicologist. According to a report in the Boston Herald, Roger W. Glese, a professor of chemistry and biomedical science at Northeastern University, said sodium azide is in the “same class” as the cyanide concoctions that have been responsible for similar incidents in recent years. “It’s easy to obtain,” Giese told the Herald. “It’s inexpensive, it’s water soluble. It’s salt, like sodium chloride ... And it doesn’t take very much” to be lethal, he said. The chemical is used as a preservative in laboratories, and …
Youaresheeple
12:16 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
We should ban the internet, spoons, and sharp objects too. She wanted to kill herself, she had the knowledege to use a chemical, if not she would've used something else...I am really getting tired of fake journalism...senastionalist...she was a doctoral student...she couldve thought of a lot of things to kill herself...ban doctors too...they know too much. more ›