hydrogen cyanide

English

Noun

hydrogen cyanide (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A colourless, very poisonous, volatile liquid, HCN, used in the production of dyes, plastics and fumigants; it dissolves in water to form hydrocyanic acid and reacts with bases to form cyanides, and with some organic compounds to form nitriles.

Synonyms

• chyazic acid
• formonitrile

Related terms

• hydrocyanic acid

Translations

the compound HCN — see also hydrocyanic acid

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 山埃 (saan¹ aai¹)

  Mandarin: 氰化氫／氰化氢 (zh) (qínghuàqīng, qīnghuàqīng)

• Czech: kyanovodík m
• Esperanto: hidrogena cianido
• Finnish: syaanivety, syaanivetyhappo, sinihappo, formonitriili
• French: cyanure d’hydrogène (fr) m
• German: Cyanwasserstoff m
• Greek: υδροκυάνιο (el) n (ydrokyánio)
• Hungarian: hidrogén-cianid, ciánhidrogén (hu)
• Japanese: 青酸 (ja) (seisan), シアン化水素 (shianka suiso)
• Korean: 시안화수소(化水素) (sianhwasuso), 청산(靑酸) (ko) (cheongsan), 청화수소(靑化水素) (cheonghwasuso)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hydrogencyanid n

  Nynorsk: hydrogencyanid n

• Persian: هیدروژن سیانید (hidrožen siyânid)
• Polish: cyjanowodór (pl) m
• Portuguese: cianeto/cianureto de hidrogénio/hidrogênio m
• Swedish: vätecyanid (sv), blåsyra (sv), cyanväte (sv), cyanvätesyra
• Thai: ไฮโดรเจนไซยาไนด์ (hai-droo-jeen-sai-yaa-nai)