cyanide
substantivoverboatestado nos diálogos
- //ˈsaɪənaɪd//
Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.
substantivo
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Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.
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Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.
The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide
Two doctors and a metallurgist from Scotland patented a process for dissolving gold with cyanide in 1887 and patented the recovery of gold from solution using finely divided zinc (zinc precipitation) the following year. […] The first commercial processing plant to use cyanide in the milling circuit was constructed at the Crown mine at Karangahake, New Zealand in 1889.
The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants.
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Hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas, a poisonous gas.
Etimologia
From cyan- + -ide.
verbo
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To treat or poison with cyanide.
Formas
- plural
- cyanides
- pretérito
- cyanided
- particípio passado
- cyanided
- gerúndio
- cyaniding
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- cyanides
cyanide · Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.
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