Cyanide - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cyanideCyanogen
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...
Nitrile
Any one of a series of compounds bearing the cyanide radical CN particularly one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which by boiling with acids or alkalies produce a carboxyl acid with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia...
Barrel process
A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel or drum with mercury chlorine cyanide solution or other reagent...
Cyanide
A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical...
Cyanotype
A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide...
Cyanuret
A cyanide...
Ferricyanide
One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base...
Ferrocyanide
One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base...
Haloid
Resembling salt said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical and now chiefly applied to the chlorides bromides iodides and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides...
Hydrocyanide
A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base distinguished from a cyanide in which only the cyanogen so combines...
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