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Word: hydrogen cyanide (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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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.

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