English
Noun
hydrogen cyanide (uncountable)
- (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
Translations
the compound HCN
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 山埃 (saan1 aai1)
- Mandarin: 氰化氫/氰化氢 (zh) (qínghuàqīng), 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)
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- Hungarian: hidrogén-cianid
- Korean: 시안화수소 (시안化水素, sianhwasuso), 청산 (ko) (靑酸, cheongsan), 청화수소 (靑化水素, cheonghwasuso)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hydrogencyanid n
- Nynorsk: hydrogencyanid n
- Polish: cyjanowodór (pl) m
- Portuguese: cianeto/cianureto de hidrogénio/hidrogênio m
- Swedish: vätecyanid (sv), blåsyra (sv), cyanväte (sv), cyanvätesyra
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