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Potassium cyanide   /pətˈæsiəm sˈaɪənˌaɪd/   Listen
Potassium cyanide

noun
1.
A poisonous salt (KCN) used in electroplating and in photography.





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"Potassium cyanide" Quotes from Famous Books



... Potassium Cyanide, KCN.—It is used in the dry assay as a reducing agent. The commercial salt is very impure. Purchase that sold as potassic cyanide (gold) which contains about 95 per cent. of KCN. It is used for copper assaying and occasionally ...
— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer


Words linked to "Potassium cyanide" :   cyanide


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