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Definition of Prussic acid
1. Noun. A solution of hydrogen cyanide in water; weak solutions are used in fumigating and in the synthesis of organic compounds.
Definition of Prussic acid
1. Noun. (chemistry obsolete) Hydrocyanic acid. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Prussic Acid
Literary usage of Prussic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"prussic acid, HCN. When employing Neumann's method - for converting albumins into
ash, Aders Plimmer a noticed the presence of silver cyanide in the ..."
2. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy by Humphry Davy, John Davy (1840)
"The prussic acid (hydrocyanic acid) was procured by Mr. M. Faraday by M.
Gay Lussac's process, and I found it of specific gravity rather below '7. ..."
3. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, John James Reese (1873)
"HYDROCYANIC, OR prussic acid. Appearances.—The body when seen soon after death
often exhales the odor of prussic acid ; but if it has remained exposed ..."
4. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"In nature, prussic acid occurs in the secretion of some of the myriapoda, ...
prussic acid may be formed from the amygdalin of the bitter almond and the ..."
5. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"By distillation this acid may be decomposed into prussic acid and oxide of iron,
which has therefore been thought to be present as a base, by those who have ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"from a lot which had proved fatal to cattle showed the presence of prussic acid.
A further study appears to verify the view that the acid is split off from ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"Brit, and For. Med.-Chir. Rev. from Edinburgh Monthly Journal, February, 1854.
62. Recovery after taking a large Dose of prussic acid. ..."
8. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"The prussic acid appears to come over in the distilled oil. metala, ... prussic acid
and its combinations have been lately investigated by M. Gay-Lussac and ..."
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