cyanide

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Sarin is 500 times more toxic than cyanide, which is life threatening in large amounts (a large amount being the size of a pill).

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  1. noun Any of various salts or esters of hydrogen cyanide containing a CN group, especially the extremely poisonous compounds potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide.
  2. transitive verb To treat (a metal surface) with cyanide to produce a hard surface.
  3. transitive verb To treat (an ore) with cyanide to extract gold or silver.

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  • When Delbruck finally gave a permit for the export of four thousand tons more of cyanide, the psychological moment had passed and we could not obtain through our State Department a pass from the British. —  My Four Years in Germany
  • Potassium cyanide is a crystalline salt derivative. —  172 - Let's Kill Ames
  • It was cyanide, all right Any idea how it got in the fake champagne No, sir. —  AHMM,December2006
  • In his case the medical evidence was that he had taken potassium cyanide, a more commonly used preparation than hydrocyanic acid and therefore more readily come by Neither Denis nor Richardson was called upon to testify to the finding of the body in the woods. —  ADDERS ON THE HEATH
  • The word cyanide floated at intervals down the aisle. —  Death In Ecstasy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 04: 1936
 

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  1. from cyan(ogen) + -ide.
  2. cyanide, n.
 

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/ˈsaɪənɪd/
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