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
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
Two years later, in 1830, Wöhler published, jointly with Liebig, the results of a research on cyanic and cyanuric acid and on urea.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
In cyanuric acid, hydrated cyanic acid, and cyamelide, we have three such isomeric compounds.
From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von
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 Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von
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