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sodium cyanide
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noun Chemistry.
a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
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Origin of sodium cyanide
First recorded in 1880–85
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How to use sodium cyanide in a sentence
When at last apprehended, Siddiqui was carrying a jar containing two pounds of a deadly poison, sodium cyanide.
This chloride is then mixed with sodium cyanide in alcoholic solution and distilled, benzyl cyanide being the result.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict CrowellSodium cyanide is a salt of hydrocyanic acid, which for, some curious reason is called "Prussic acid."
Creative Chemistry|Edwin E. Slosson
British Dictionary definitions for sodium cyanide
sodium cyanide
noun
a white odourless crystalline soluble poisonous compound with an odour of hydrogen cyanide when damp. It is used for extracting gold and silver from their ores and for case-hardening steel. Formula: NaCN
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