cyanic

[ sahy-an-ik ]

/ saɪˈæn ɪk /

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adjective

blue: applied especially to a series of colors in flowers, including the blues and colors tending toward blue.

Chemistry. containing or pertaining to the cyano group.

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Origin of cyanic

First recorded in 1825–35; cyan-¹ + -ic

Words nearby cyanic

cyan, cyanamide, cyanate, cyan blue, cyaneous, cyanic, cyanic acid, cyanide, cyanide process, cyanine, cyanite

How to use cyanic in a sentence

A mixture of cyanic and cyanuric ethers passes over into the receiver.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
The type of the cyanic series is blue, and that of the xanthic series yellow.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899|Various
Two equivalents of Cyanic acid, uniting in one compound, produce Fulminic acid.
The Action of Medicines in the System|Frederick William Headland
Sayre also suggests the possibility of the plants producing hydro-cyanic acid, which, it is well known, occurs in sorghum.
Barium, A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease|Albert Cornelius Crawford

The doctor looked grave when Mr. Skeats told him the boys had been breathing hydro-cyanic acid gas.
That Scholarship Boy|Emma Leslie