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- Cyanide - n. - A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.
- Aurocyanide - n. - A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.
- Platinocyanide - n. - A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- Turnbull's blue - - The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.
- Platinocyanic - a. - Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid compound of platinous cyanide and hydrocyanic acid. It is obtained as a cinnaber-red crystalline substance.
- Cyanogen - n. - A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.