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cyanide
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A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains monovalent combining group CN. This group, known as the cyano group , consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom. In inorganic cyanides, such as sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide this group ...
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n. any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN [syn: nitrile , nitril ] an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a salt of hydrocyanic acid, 1826, coined from cyan- , comb. form for carbon and nitrogen compounds, from Greek kyanos "dark blue" (see cyan ) + chemical ending -ide , on analogy of chloride . So called because it first had been obtained by heating the dye ...
Usage examples of cyanide.
Again, if the ore is washed with water before treating with cyanide on the large scale, then the assay should be made of the acidity of the ore after a similar washing.
Five amino acids were formed- alanine, valine, leucine, glycine, and hydrogen cyanide.
In systematic assays of this kind, the alkalinity would no doubt be generally in excess of that required by the cyanide present: there would be no inconvenience in recording such excess in terms of potassium cyanide.
Lima and other broad beans contain high concentrations of cyanogens, which poison just like the cyanide in those death-row-on-Alcatraz movies.
I and the rest of the world believe that the Jews who went left went to cyanide chambers, but the deniers believe they went to other parts of Auschwitz or, by train, to other concentration camps.
Toxicologists and criminologists would do well to get wise to this side of their profession, for I am firmly convinced that all this raving of ratsbane, deadly nightshade, cyanide, dhatura and other subtle Hindu poisons in so many of our murder trials could be obviated by the application of a little common sense.
Garnette stole the bonds and killed Miss Quayne with a jorum of sodium cyanide, he set about it in a most peculiar manner.
I made potassium cyanide by adding sal ammoniac to a mixture of plumbago and potash.
Cadmium is the metal generally recommended, and the alloy is made by melting together a weighed portion of the gold with five or six times its weight of cadmium in a Berlin crucible and under a thin layer of potassium cyanide.
Molineux poisoning case the cyanide of mercury was administered by way of a similar drug--to wit: BromoSeltzer.
Cyanide of potassium, when left in a bottle, generates prussic or hydrocyanic acid.
Our talk was of cyanide processes, reverberatories, pennyweights, water-jackets.
They carried ladders, field glasses, swatters, and guns that could shoot a small cyanide pellet directly into a hive entrance.
The citizen crusade made diverting stories for the media, but the scientists knew that the main - and ominous - result of thousands on thousands of wellmeaning people trooping through woodlands with swatters, cyanide guns and torches had been to force the.
The Antillean refugee Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, disabled war veteran, photographer of children, and his most sympathetic opponent in chess, had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.