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A collection of scientific items including a corked bottle, a flask, a chemical structure diagram, a scroll, and a petri dish.

Can you handle the lethal side of science in this fast Strychnine Chemistry quiz?

Poisons & Toxins

Difficulty

Hard

Questions

20

Volts

3/q

Agatha Christie loved it, but do you actually know how this alkaloid shuts down the nervous system? From the Nux vomica tree to the fatal muscle spasms of the victorian era, the chemistry of strychnine is brutal. Prove you can handle the science behind the sting. Play now.

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