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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyanogen \Cy*an"o*gen\ (s?-?n"?-j?n), n. [Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -gen: cf. F. cyanog[`e]ne. So called because it produced blue dyes.] (Chem.) A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.
Note: Cyanogen is found in the commercial substances, potassium cyanide, or prussiate of potash, yellow prussiate of potash, Prussian blue, Turnbull's blue, prussic acid, etc.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A colourless, poisonous gas used as a rocket propellant, an insecticide and in chemical warfare. 2 (context chemistry English) The pseudohalogen (CN)2. 3 (context chemistry English) The radical -CN.
WordNet
n. a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare
Wikipedia
Cyanogen is the chemical compound with the formula ( C N). It is a colorless, toxic gas with a pungent odor. The molecule is a pseudohalogen. Cyanogen molecules consist of two CN groups – analogous to diatomic halogen molecules, such as Cl, but far less oxidizing. The two cyano groups are bonded together at their carbon atoms: N≡C−C≡N, although other isomers have been detected. Certain derivatives of cyanogen are also called "cyanogen" even though they contain only one CN group. For example, cyanogen bromide has the formula NCBr.
Cyanogen is the anhydride of oxamide:
HNC(O)C(O)NH → NCCN + 2 HOalthough oxamide is manufactured from cyanogen by hydrolysis:
NCCN + 2 HO → HNC(O)C(O)NHCyanogen is a chemical compound.
Cyanogen may also refer to:
- CyanogenMod, the Android firmware
- Steve Kondik, the lead developer of CyanogenMod nicknamed "Cyanogen"
Usage examples of "cyanogen".
When the astronomers decided that the tail was made up of deadly cyanogen gas I knew the numbers had to be in our favor, which was soon confirmed in news reports that plenty of people decided to overlook.
But you have to understand there was only about one molecule of poison per cubic yard, and since it takes ten thousand sextillion cyanogen molecules to weigh one poundthese were all known numbers well in advance of the encounterthen a little figuring would have told us that the sum total of poison gas the planet Earth was about to pass through weighed barely half an ounce.
A staccato blast of gunfire instantly boomed and echoed through the cyanogen atmosphere within the tower, when his men followed his lead.
Though unfamiliar with the perils of cyanogen gas, Chokoloskee residents had little doubt that the comet portended the arrival of Judgment Day upon the earth in the form of storms, floods, droughts, and plagues and other natural afflictions, among which not a few would be laid at the door of Mr.
Even if the Earth had passed through the tail in 1910 and the molecules in the tail had been mixed thoroughly down to the surface of the Earth, there would have been only one molecule of cyanogen in every trillion molecules of air.
Many comets are surrounded by a cloud or coronacontaining poisonous cyanogen gas.
Spectroscopic analyses indicate that Hale-Bopp does contain, among other things, large amounts of reddish dust and cyanogen gas!
Lima and other broad beans contain high concentrations of cyanogens, which poison just like the cyanide in those death-row-on-Alcatraz movies.
The only way discovered by the Cardassians to protect against further deterioration of their pulmonary and nervous systems-the dying of the cones in O'Brien's eyes was only the most "visible" sign of a deteriorating brainmwas to grind up the Praying Lizards, as the chief dubbed them, and extract a long-chain biopolymer that scrubbed the system of cyanogens, at least in the concentrations produced by breathing.
We have a complete chemical roadmap for scrubbing the cyanogens from the food supply, using only native animal life.
The pain was almost constant--the cyanogens in the air, Dax knew--and the only reason she wouldn't cry out was that she knew the doctor was suffering as much and more.
He backed away, trying to reassure himself that it was just the stench of Bashir's concoction, and not the cyanogens affecting his own titanium stomach lining.
And all the less advanced creatures were just as susceptible to the cyanogens as were humans, Cardassians, and other invaders: they simply lived such a short time that most died of other causes long before the contaminants could kill them.
He backed away, trying to reassure himself that it was just the stench of Bashir's concoction, and not the cyanogens affect ing his own titanium stomach lining.
The only way discov ered by the Cardassians to protect against further deterioration of their pulmonary and nervous sys tems-the dying of the cones in O'Brien's eyes was only the most "visible" sign of a deteriorating brainmwas to grind up the Praying Lizards, as the chief dubbed them, and extract a long-chain bio polymer that scrubbed the system of cyanogens, at least in the concentrations produced by breathing.