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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An unstable acid, HCNO, that forms highly explosive salts.

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  • noun chemistry Iso-cyanic acid, HCNO, an unstable compound which forms explosive salts

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  • noun (CNOH) an unstable acid occurring mainly in the form of explosive salts and esters that is isomeric with cyanic acid

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin fulmen, fulmin-, lightning that strikes; see fulminate + –ic.]

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