Crossword clues for cyanide
cyanide
- Spy film poison
- Murder mystery poison
- Whodunit poison stuff
- What the smell of bitter almonds suggests to Poirot
- Spy movie poison
- Poison in many murder mysteries
- Laetrile ingredient
- Extremely poisonous compound
- Dangerous substance that smells like bitter almonds
- Cause of death in many a murder mystery
- Capsule contents in a spy movie
- Poison pill contents
- Compound in apricot pits
- Any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN
- An extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid
- Deadly poison
- It smells like bitter almonds
- Killer dog biting equerry's rear with energy
- Dine out on candy? A potential killer!
- At first, you can die horribly from this?
- Whodunit poison
- Poison in some whodunits
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyanide \Cy"a*nide\ (s?"?-n?d or -n?d; 104), n. [Cf. F. cyanide. See Cyanic.] (Chem.) A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.
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 pigment powder known as Prussian blue (see Prussian).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chemistry countable English) Any compound containing the -C≡N radical or the C≡N-1 anion. 2 (context uncountable English) potassium cyanide - a water soluble poison 3 (context uncountable English) hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas - a poisonous gas
WordNet
Wikipedia
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 is present as the negatively charged polyatomic cyanide ion (CN); these compounds, which are regarded as salts of hydrocyanic acid, are highly toxic. The cyanide ion is isoelectronic with carbon monoxide and with molecular nitrogen.
Organic cyanides are usually called nitriles; in these, the CN group is linked by a covalent bond to a carbon-containing group, such as methyl (CH) in methyl cyanide ( acetonitrile). Because they do not release cyanide ions, nitriles are generally less toxic, or in the case of insoluble polymers such as acrylic fiber, essentially nontoxic unless burned.
Hydrocyanic acid, also known as hydrogen cyanide, or HCN, is a highly volatile liquid used to prepare acrylonitrile, which is used in the production of acrylic fibers, synthetic rubber, and plastics. Cyanides are employed in a number of chemical processes, including fumigation, case hardening of iron and steel, electroplating, and the concentration of ores. In nature, substances yielding cyanide are present in certain seeds, such as the pit of the cherry and the seeds of apples.
Cyanide is a class of chemical compounds.
Cyanide may also refer to:
Cyanide is a French video game development studio and publisher that was created by seven ex- UbiSoft employees and is based in the western suburbs of Paris, France, with offices in Montreal, Canada and Chengdu, China.
They have developed games in numerous genres, including sports management, real time strategy, fantasy, and action RPG.
Cyanide'' (German:Cyankali'') is a 1930 German drama film directed by Hans Tintner and starring Grete Mosheim, Nico Turoff and Claus Clausen. The film's art direction was by Franz Schroedter. The film is adapted from Friedrich Wolf's 1929 play of the same title, which addressed the issue of abortion. The film is part of the German tradition of Enlightenment films, popular during the Weimar Era. It premiered on 23 May 1930 on the same day as Westfront 1918.
"Cyanide" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, the third single taken from their ninth studio album, Death Magnetic. On September 1, 2008, it was made available for streaming on the band's official website, as well as a download (for Platinum Members only) from the Death Magnetic website Mission: Metallica. It has since been made available for purchase as a digital single in the iTunes Store.
The song was played live for the first time on August 9, 2008 at Ozzfest in Dallas, Texas and was the first song from Death Magnetic to be performed live in its entirety. An audio recording of the performance is featured on the band's MySpace page. Song was also performed live on Later...With Jools Holland in 2008.
Cyanide , Kuppi ( Tamil) is a 2006 Indian bilingual drama film written and directed by A. M. R. Ramesh. The plot of the film set in and around Bangalore from 1 August to 20 August 1991, deals with incidents surrounding the assassins of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It stars Ravi Kale as Sivarasan (One-eyed Jack), the mastermind of the assassination. Malavika Avinash, Tara, Rangayana Raghu in pivotal roles. The supporting cast features Avinash, Nasser and Suresh Heblikar.
Upon theatrical release on 7 July 2006, the film received widespread critical acclaim. Critics acclaimed the film's narration, the acting performances of Ravi Kale, Rangayana Raghu, Tara and Malavika Avinash, and the camerawork and editing of the film. At the 2006–07 Karnataka State Film Awards the film won two awards — Third Best Film and Best Actress (Tara). For his portrayal of Ranganath, who sheltered the assassins, Raghu was awarded the Best Supporting Actor at the 54th Filmfare Awards South. The film is seen by some critics as one of the finest films ever made in Kannada cinema.
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.