cyanate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cyanate
First recorded in 1835–45; cyan(ic acid) + -ate 2
Example Sentences
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Dr Liu Shunchang, Research Fellow in Asst Prof Hou's team, employed various analytical methods to confirm the successful integration of cyanate into the perovskite structure, and fabricated a cyanate-integrated perovskite solar cell.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
In this recently published work, the NUS team experimented on cyanate, a novel pseudohalide, as a substitute for bromide -- an ion from the halide group that is commonly used in perovskites.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
That idea has led to the experimental development elsewhere of machines, somewhat like artificial kidney units, which allow the cyanate to react with the blood outside the body.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the Rockefeller scientists suggested adding the cyanate directly to the blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Potassic Cyanide is an easily fusible and somewhat volatile salt, which, when fused, readily removes oxygen and sulphur from metallic compounds, and forms potassic cyanate or sulphocyanate as the case may be.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
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