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Time to Strike Antifreeze Off Your List of Usable Poisons
Season 8
Episode 21
Ethylene glycol is the most common ingredient in automotive antifreeze. But for years it was used in homicidal poisonings. What made this household chemical so dangerous? And why is it no longer a viable poison?
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