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US
/ˈsaɪˌnaɪd, ˈsaɪəˌnaɪd/
]
[ UK /sˈaɪɐnˌaɪd/ ]
[ UK /sˈaɪɐnˌaɪd/ ]
NOUN
- an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid
- any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN
How To Use cyanide In A Sentence
- This may be true, but chemically the cyanide will adsorb onto a cell membrane increasing the electron donor or antioxidant capacity of the cell.
- Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
- The process works because soluble copper and iron form insoluble compounds with the ferrocyanide ion.
- He said he had asked him to help collect apple seeds and cherry stones - the raw ingredients for cyanide - and told him it was for use in making herbal medicine.
- The victims are also understood to have left a note saying that they had used cyanide. Times, Sunday Times
- The signature of a baseline molecule, called acetylene (C2H2), was seen for both types of stars, but hydrogen cyanide was seen only around stars like our sun. Image Gallery
- The gas he claims was methyl isocyanide and it was lethal.
- For some samples a mixture of ferricyanide and ferrocyanide were added to the pellet.
- The spectra that are observed indicate that small molecules, such as cyanide, methane, and cyanogen, can assemble in outer space.
- The affected population consumed flour made from short-soaked (one day) cassava roots and thus had high dietary exposure to cyanide (urinary thiocyanate in 31 children was 757 vs. 50 units for a population where cassava had been soaked for the normal three days). 10: Food science