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Definition of Cyanogen
1. Noun. A colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare.
Definition of Cyanogen
1. n. 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.
Definition of Cyanogen
1. Noun. A colourless, poisonous gas used as a rocket propellant, an insecticide and in chemical warfare. ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) The pseudohalogen (CN)2. ¹
3. Noun. (chemistry) The radical -CN. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cyanogen
1. a reactive compound of carbon and nitrogen [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cyanogen
1. A compound of two cyano radicals, NC-CN; its highly toxic compounds (general formula X-CN, where X is a halogen) are used in chemical syntheses and as tissue preservatives. Synonym: ethanedinitrile. Cyanogen chloride, CNCl;a highly volatile liquid; a systemic poison used as a warning agent in fumigation with hydrogen cyanide. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyanogen
Literary usage of Cyanogen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Frozen cyanogen is transparent, crystalline, apparently of the same density ...
When cyanogen evaporates into the air, an effect which takes place quietly ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"On the Spectrum of cyanogen as produced and modified by Spark Discharges."
By WN HARTLEY, FRS, Royal College of Science, Dublin. Received July 13, 1896. ..."
3. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"A better method for the preparation of cyanogen is the interaction of solutions
of potassium cyanide and copper sulphate; cupric cyanide is formed, ..."
4. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"Our former observations "On the Flame Spectrum of cyanogen Burning in Air " were
... \Vhen gaseous cyanogen ii liquefied by the direct pressure of the gas, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"quantities of cyanogen should exist in equilibrium with carbon and nitrogen at
the temperature of the aro : Temperature calculated from ..."
6. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"Halogen-Compounds of cyanogen. cyanogen unites with the halogens to form compounds
in which the cyanogen is electropositive. GASEOUS cyanogen CHLORIDE ..."
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