paracyanogen

English

Etymology

para- +‎ cyanogen

Noun

paracyanogen (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paracyanogen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)