cyanide en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈsaɪənaɪd/
Etymology
From cyan- + -ide.
Meanings
- (countable) Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.
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(countable, uncountable) Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.
The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide
1959, Tom Lehrer, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”:The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants.
2000, Sean Dolan, Everything You Need to Know About Cults, New York: The Rosen Publishing Groups, Inc., →ISBN, page 15:Two doctors and a metallurgist from Scotland patented a process for dissolving gold with cyanide in 1887 and patented the recovery of gold from solution using finely divided zinc (zinc precipitation) the following year. […] The first commercial processing plant to use cyanide in the milling circuit was constructed at the Crown mine at Karangahake, New Zealand in 1889.
1988 July, Michael A. Silva, “Cyanide Heap Leaching in California”, in California Geology, volume 41, number 7, page 147:
- (uncountable) Hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas, a poisonous gas.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cyanides | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
selenocyanide · cyanide process · cyanidation · potassium silver cyanide · tricyanide · ferrocyanide · methyl cyanide · leucocyanide · hydrocyanide · aurocyanide · silver cyanide · benzyl cyanide · isocyanide · dicyanide · thiocyanide · bromobenzyl cyanide · bicyanide · protocyanide · carbonyl cyanide · vinyl cyanide · cyanide fishing · ferricyanide · cyanidol · platinocyanide
Translations (35)
es cianuro (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · be цыяні́д (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · tr siyanür (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · th ไซยาไนด์ (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · ro cianură (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · he ציאניד (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · cs kyanid (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · fr cyanure (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · id sianida (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · el κυανίδιο (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · fa سیانور (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · eo cianido (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · uk ціані́д (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · es prusiato (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · nl cyanide (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · da cyanid (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · pl cyjanek (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · hi श्यामिद (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · fi syaaniyhdiste (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · mk цијанид (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · mi haeanate (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · sv cyanid (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · cmn 氰化物 (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · pt cianureto (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · ja 青酸塩 (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · hu cianid (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · io cianido (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · bg циани́д (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · ca cianur (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · it cianuro (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · de Zyanid (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · tl siyanuro (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · ru циани́д (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · fi syanidi (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group) · pt cianeto (chemistry: any compound containing the CN group)