Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
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1:05:03
He presented us
with rock samples...

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anywhere from
the size of your thumb up to
half the size of your fist.

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We broke 'em up
with a hammer...

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so that we could get
a sub-sample,

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placed it in a flask,
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add concentrated
sulfuric acid.

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And it undergoes
a reaction.

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It produces
a red-colored solution.

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It is the intensity
of this red color...

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that we can relate
with cyanide concentration.

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And you have to look
at what happens to cyanide...

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when it reacts with a wall.
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Where does it go?
How far does it go?

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Cyanide
is a surface reaction.

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It's probably
not going to penetrate
more than ten microns.

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Human hair's
a hundred microns in diameter.

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Crush this sample up.
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I have just diluted
that sample...

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ten thousand,
a hundred thousand times.

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If you're gonna go look for it,
you're gonna look
on the surface only.

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There's no reason
to go deep...

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because it's not going
to be there.

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Which was the exposed surface?
I didn't even have any idea.

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That's like analyzing
paint on the wall.

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By analyzing,
they timber this behind it.

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If they go in
with blinders on,

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they will see
what they want to see.

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What was he really
trying to do?


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