hydrogen cyanide

hydrogen cyanide

English

Noun

hydrogen cyanide (uncountable)

1. (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

• chyazic acid
• formonitrile

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