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Definition of Cyanic acid
1. Noun. A colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Definition of Cyanic acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) An unstable, highly volatile, poisonous acid, HOCN, used to preapre cyanates; hydrolyzes in water to give ammonia and carbon dioxide ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyanic Acid
Literary usage of Cyanic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Experimental Chemistry by William Henry (1831)
"By a sufficient quantity of chlorine, the whole of the sulphur is converted into
sulphuric acid, and hydro-cyanic acid is disengaged. ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"Furthermore, experiments are being conducted in this laboratory toward an extension
of the condensations of cyanic acid with glacial acetic acid as the ..."
3. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1836)
"An atom of cyanogen, combined with an atom of oxygen, forms cyanic acid, which
may be obtained in union with potash, by igniting peroxide of manganese with ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1880)
"The cyanuric acid is thus wholly converted into pure cyanic acid. cyanic acid
has an extremely pungent odour, and is very volatile ; its vapour attacks the ..."
5. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1910)
"Determination of cyanic acid, Hydrocyanic Acid, and Carbonic Acid in a Mixture
of their Potassium Salts. In one portion of the substance the carbonic acid ..."
6. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1853)
"Whilst one portion of the cyanic acid is thus converted into bicarbonate of
ammonia, another portion takes up the ammonia, driving out the carbonic acid ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1833)
"cyanic acid. The compound described under this title in the last edition of these
Elements, has been shown by Wohler and Liebig to consist essentially of ..."
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