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cyanic acid
noun
, Chemistry.
- an unstable, poisonous, liquid acid, HOCN, isomeric with fulminic acid.
cyanic acid
/ saɪˈænɪk /
noun
- a colourless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyses readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide. Formula: HOCN Compare isocyanic acid fulminic acid
cyanic acid
/ sī-ăn′ĭk /
- A poisonous, unstable, and highly volatile organic acid used to prepare cyanates. Chemical formula: HOCN.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cyanic acid1
First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences
Sayre also suggests the possibility of the plants producing hydro-cyanic acid, which, it is well known, occurs in sorghum.
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The doctor looked grave when Mr. Skeats told him the boys had been breathing hydro-cyanic acid gas.
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A hot solution of potassic cyanide, mixed with picric acid, assumes a blood-red colour, due to the formation of picro-cyanic acid.
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By distillation this new substance is reconverted into cyanic acid.
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A salt in which the hydrogen of cyanic acid is replaced by a metal or other basic radical.
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