cyanic
Americanadjective
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blue: applied especially to a series of colors in flowers, including the blues and colors tending toward blue.
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Chemistry. containing or pertaining to the cyano group.
Etymology
Origin of cyanic
Example Sentences
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He hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hydrated cyanic acid is a volatile and highly blistering fluid, which cannot be brought into contact with water without being instantaneously decomposed.
From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Justus, Freiherr von Liebig
Cyanogen chloride, CNCl, may be regarded as the chloride of cyanic acid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Substituted ammonias were also made to combine with cyanic acid, and it was found that the substituted ammonium cyanates produced pass much more readily into the corresponding ureas than ammonium cyanate itself.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
These from Schrader down, agree in portraying a brunescent form with yellow spores; Mr. Lister enters it with the cyanic series and so describes and figures it throughout.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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