Talk:Sodium nitroprusside
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What is the CAS #?
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[edit] Non-medicinal uses
This page seems to be focused on the compound's use in medicine, but there seem to be other uses. It is used in the detection of methamphetamine and MDMA and seems to be a common drug-test reagent. If there are enough non-medicinal uses, a new section might help. --24.16.148.75 15:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hazards
I agree with the above. The page listed the chemical as non-hazardous, but common MSDS's (which should be pointed at by this page) list hazards identical to cyanide poisoning.
It was also mentioned as a candidate for next-generation optical memory devices. ("Наука и жизнь" mag., www.nkj.ru, few years ago.)As stated in that article, it is normally transparent to red and green light; blue light gradually makes it black (i.e. no longer transparent to red and green), and red light reverses the effect. Please check that! 217.8.94.135 16:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mechanism of Action
"Its mechanism of action appears to be liberation of nitric oxide (NO), converting Haemoglobin to cyanomethaemaglobin". NO surely works by binding to the haem group of guanylyl cyclase, activating it and so increasing levels of cGMP, ultimately relaxing vascular smooth muscle. NO would be taken up by red cells and would convert some of their haem to methaemoglobin, but that is hardly the mechanism of action.Moletrouser (talk) 15:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
