Meaning Of The Word Sodium cyanide
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Sodium cyanide Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Sodium cyanide?
sodium cyanide in American English
a white, highly poisonous salt, NaCN, used in electroplating, as an insecticide, etc. noun: a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating sodium cyanide in British English noun: a white odourless crystalline soluble poisonous compound with an odour of hydrogen cyanide when damp. It is used for extracting gold and silver from their ores and for case-hardening steel. Formula: NaCN |
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