Prussian blue is a cyanide compound though it is not toxic:
Prussian blue is a dark blue pigment produced by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts. It has the idealized chemical formula Fe
7(CN)
18. Another name for the color is Berlin blue or, in painting, Parisian or Paris blue. Turnbull's blue is the same substance, but is made from different reagents, and its slightly different color stems from different impurities.
Prussian blue was the first modern synthetic pigment. It is prepared as a very fine colloidal dispersion, because the compound is not soluble in water. It contains variable amounts[1] of other ions and its appearance depends sensitively on the size of the colloidal particles. The pigment is used in paints, and it is the traditional "blue" in blueprints and aizuri-e Japanese woodblock prints.
In medicine, orally administered Prussian blue is used as an antidote for certain kinds of heavy metal poisoning, e.g., by thallium and radioactive isotopes of caesium. In particular, it was used to absorb 137 Cs+ from those poisoned in the Goiânia accident.[1] The therapy exploits the compound's ion-exchange properties and high affinity for certain "soft" metal cations.
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Despite the fact that it is prepared from cyanide salts, Prussian blue is not toxic because the cyanide groups are tightly bound to iron. [18] Other polymeric cyanometalates are similarly stable with low toxicity.
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