hydrogen cyanide

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

Related terms

hydrocyanic acid

Translations

the compound HCN

Chinese:
Cantonese: 山埃 (saan¹ aai¹)

Mandarin: 氰化氫 (zh), 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
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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