hydrogen cyanide

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun

[edit]

hydrogen cyanide (uncountable)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) 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.

Synonyms

[edit]
[edit]

Translations

[edit]