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hydrocyanide

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Etymology

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From hydro- +‎ cyanide.

Noun

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hydrocyanide (plural hydrocyanides)

  1. (chemistry) A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base, distinguished from cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hydrocyanide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)