cyanogen bromide

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noun

a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.

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He was adept at deflecting a direct question with an anecdote or a bromide presented as a confidence.
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In executions, that drug is pancuronium bromide, a type of curariform, or neuromuscular-blocking agent.
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Veterinarians object to the use of the second drug, the pancuronium bromide, because it presents as unnecessary risk of suffering.
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At the end, however, he treats viewers to a poli-sci bromide that we could really have done without.
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Bromide of potassium is generally recognised as the most effective anti-epileptic remedy we at present possess.
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In brief, film is a cellulose base coated with silver bromide and gelatine.
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Now only the image-forming silver bromide particles remain, and these have been transformed to metallic silver.
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The Doctor started to give him some fresh advice—but left him a bromide instead.
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It forms white prismatic crystals; and, in its general properties, resembles bromide of potassium.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley