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Definition of Potassium cyanide
1. Noun. A poisonous salt (KCN) used in electroplating and in photography.
Definition of Potassium cyanide
1. Noun. (inorganic compound) The potassium salt of hydrocyanic acid, KCN; the colourless crystals are soluble in water, and it is extremely poisonous, and is used in electroplating, the extraction of gold and silver from their ores, and in photography. ¹
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Literary usage of Potassium cyanide
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1. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"THE CONDUCTION OF potassium cyanide IN PLANTS JOHN A. ELLIOTT WITH Two FIGURES IN
... Moore, William and Haggles, AG The action of potassium cyanide when ..."
2. Experimental Organic Chemistry by James Flack Norris (1915)
"potassium cyanide is very poisonous. It should not be touched with the fingers;
use a spatula or handle small pieces with pincers. HOOD. ..."
3. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1883)
"potassium cyanide must be of a milk-white color and quite free from particles of
iron ... potassium cyanide prepared in the manner described produces in the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"Sol.inH2O. Insol. in alcohol. (Kalischer, Dissert. 1902.) potassium cyanide
molybdenum dioxide hydroxylamine, ..."
5. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1891)
"POTASSIUM, RUBIDIUM, CAESIUM, AND LITHIUM the mass thus obtained be treated with
water, the potassium cyanide is partially decomposed by the water, ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Hence, starting with a solution of pure potassium cyanide, the spent liquors
necessarily contain (beside the unaltered excess of potassium cyanide) ..."
7. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"The compound may also be obtained by the action of potassium cyanide solution on
metallic silver in the presence of air, by dissolving silver chloride in ..."
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