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n. Any of various salts or esters of hydrogen cyanide containing a CN group, especially the extremely poisonous compounds potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide.

v. To treat (a metal surface) with cyanide to produce a hard surface.

v. To treat (an ore) with cyanide to extract gold or silver.

n. (countable) Any compound containing the -C≡N radical or the C≡N-1 anion.

n. potassium cyanide - a water soluble poison

n. hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas - a poisonous gas

n. A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

n. In chem., a combination of cyanogen with an element or a compound radicle capable of acting as an element.

To treat an ore with a weak solution of an alkaline cyanide, as in the cyanide process for the extraction of gold. See cyanide process.

n. any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN

n. an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid

"However, bitter almonds are used for almond flavoring and do contain cyanide, which is removed for making things like extracts."

cyanide of cacodyl    cyanide powder    potassium cyanide    platinobarium cyanide    alkaline cyanide    cyanide process    Zyklon B    hydrocyanic acid    Nevada gas   

ferrocyanide    ferricyanide   

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