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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The radical CNO contained in cyanic acid.

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  • noun chemistry, especially in combination a univalent functional group, -CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom joined with a triple bond; organic compounds containing a cyano group are nitriles

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Examples

  • Paramedics will be carrying now a kit used in France, it is called a cyano kit to treat the poison.

    CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006 2006

  • I would be lying if I said that is always the case, for instance his B12 spray is cyanocobalamin and hypothyroid people do not assimilate the "cyano" form and are better taking the "methyl" form, so I don't buy Mercola B12.

    Kris InSight 2010

  • It very well may have had a cyano group in it somewhere.

    Ceci n’est pas une molécule : Bev Vincent 2010

  • Ages ago, cyano requested a poem about the 45-foot long fossil snake Titanoboa cerrejonensis.

    APED: "titanoboa pop song" hradzka 2010

  • Ages ago, cyano requested a poem about the 45-foot long fossil snake Titanoboa cerrejonensis.

    yuletide 2009: hit counts, comments, and predictions for 2010 hradzka 2010

  • We report the carbon monoxide-dependent formation of carbon-fixation products, including an ordered series of alpha-hydroxy and alpha-amino acids of the general formula R-CHA-COOH (where R is H, CH3, C2H5, orHOCH2 and A is OH or NH2) by carbon fixation at 80 degrees to 120 degrees C, catalyzed by nickel or nickel, iron precipitates with carbonyl, cyano, and methylthio ligands as carbon sources, with or without sulfido ligands.

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • These belong to the sub-group of pyrethroids with an alpha-cyano group in the molecular structure.

    4. Planning 1997

  • With the other alpha-cyano compounds, e.g. cyfluthrin and alphacypermethrin, the preliminary observations suggest that these are no different to the other alpha-cyano pyrethroids.

    4. Planning 1997

  • Such symptoms are common with the alpha cyano compounds (deltamethrin and lambdacyhalothrin etc.) and are rare with permethrin.

    5. Implementation 1997

  • These are potentially hazardous because they contain cyano groups.

    5 Uses 1985

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    July 12, 2008