Thanks for the info! I see what you mean about Google being useless for this kind of thing. I keep getting newspaper articles about suspicious deaths, or if I go for poison specifically (it seemed the most likely thing for what I need) I get results of clinical trials on mice and things like that.
I'm actually writing a short, ship-centric fic and basically just need some plausible-sounding technobabble for a comic scene; too much detail would probably spoil the scene. I think what I might do is just make up a deadly variety of mushroom and make vague handwavy motions about testing stomach contents for a particular made-up compound unique to this mushroom. (The canon itself is hardly a shining beacon of realism, so it should fit right in. *g*)
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Date: 2011-04-11 05:16 am (UTC)Thanks for the info! I see what you mean about Google being useless for this kind of thing. I keep getting newspaper articles about suspicious deaths, or if I go for poison specifically (it seemed the most likely thing for what I need) I get results of clinical trials on mice and things like that.
I'm actually writing a short, ship-centric fic and basically just need some plausible-sounding technobabble for a comic scene; too much detail would probably spoil the scene. I think what I might do is just make up a deadly variety of mushroom and make vague handwavy motions about testing stomach contents for a particular made-up compound unique to this mushroom. (The canon itself is hardly a shining beacon of realism, so it should fit right in. *g*)