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  • noun dated, organic chemistry cyanogen

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  • An entirely new light is shed by this view upon the composition of hydrogen peroxide, which would be looked at as two free hydroxyl groups joined together thus: (OH) -- (OH), analogous to our di-ethyl, diphenyl, dicyanogen, etc.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various

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