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

Words nearby sodium cyanide

sodium bromide, sodium carbonate, sodium chlorate, sodium chloride, sodium citrate, sodium cyanide, sodium cyclamate, sodium dichromate, sodium ethylate, sodium fluoride, sodium fluoroacetate

How to use sodium cyanide in a sentence

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Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
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An autopsy found highly toxic cyanide levels in the blood of the not-so-dearly departed.
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For all intents and purposes, sodium thiopental is now unavailable in the United States.
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He opted for the latter, and two years later, took his own life by ingesting cyanide.
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The metal is then removed, and washed successively with very dilute sodium hydroxid solution, alcohol, and ether.
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This fluid is then heated, adding crystals of sodium acetate until it becomes perfectly clear.
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Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).
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Glass rods and tubing of sodium glass: for stirring rods, urinary pipets, etc.
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Sodium and alcohol reduce common camphor to a mixture of d- and l-borneol.
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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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