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Definition of Hydrogen cyanide
1. Noun. A highly poisonous gas or volatile liquid that smells like bitter almonds; becomes a gas at around 90 degree Fahrenheit and is most dangerous when inhaled; the anhydride of hydrocyanic acid; used in manufacturing.
Definition of Hydrogen cyanide
1. Noun. (inorganic compound) A colourless, very poisonous, volatile liquid, HCN, used in the production of dyes, plastics and fumigants; it dissolves in water to form hydrocyanic acid and reacts with bases to form cyanides, and with some organic compounds to form nitriles. ¹
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Medical Definition of Hydrogen cyanide
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrogen Cyanide
Literary usage of Hydrogen cyanide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gas Analysis by Louis Munroe Dennis (1913)
"Detection of hydrogen cyanide. — hydrogen cyanide may be detected by absorbing
the gas ... hydrogen cyanide may also be detected by the methods proposed by ..."
2. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"Gentle heat is applied to the tube, the contents of which suffer decomposition
in contact with the gas, mercuric sulphide and hydrogen cyanide being ..."
3. Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry by Heinrich Biltz, Wilhelm Biltz (1909)
"For the preparation of cyanogen gas, hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid) is first
... The hydrogen cyanide, together with the residues, is worked over into ..."
4. The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Interrelations Between by Raphael Meldola (1904)
"II], which gives hydrogen cyanide when heated with dilute sulphuric acid and
manganese dioxide (Watts's Diet., Morley and Muir, II, 627). ..."
5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1903)
""Reactions involving the Addition of hydrogen cyanide to Carbon Compounds. ...
In order to ascertain the conditions under which hydrogen cyanide is most ..."
6. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"nitriles and hydrogen cyanide do not. When hydrogen cyanide is heated it polymerises;
but there is no evidence that it undergoes isomeric change ; nitriles, ..."
7. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"Glucosides yielding hydrogen cyanide on hydrolysis, of which amyg- dalin is a
well-known example, have of late been occasionally found in plants used as ..."
8. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"It is soluble in water but the water solution is unstable, decomposing into oxalic
acid, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen cyanide and urea. ..."
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