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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compound of a basic element or radical with the dyad radical Fe.NO.(CN)5.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See nitroprussic.

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  • noun inorganic chemistry Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion

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Examples

  • Conventional therapy for hypertensive crisis should be employed. 5 A rapid short-acting parenteral alpha-adrenergic blocker, such as phentolamine, or vasodilators, such as nitroprusside, are recommended.

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  • Analysis by color tests (Marquis and nitroprusside), GC/MS, and UV, however, indicated not MDMA but rather a 1: 1 mixture of benzylpiperazine (BZP) and trifluoromethylphenylpiperazine (TFMPP) for the orange, green, purple and blue tablets, and a 1: 2 mixture of BZP and TFMPP for the pink tablets.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Add a few drops of sodium nitroprusside solution, make alkaline with ammonia, then saturate with ammonium sulphate crystals.

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  • Colonel Ashley looked after her for a moment, as though half of a mind to follow, and then, slowly shaking his head, he again picked up the paper he had been reading, delving through a maze of technical poisoning detection formulae, from Vortmann's nitroprusside test to a consideration of the best method of estimating the toxicity of chemical compounds by blood hemolysis.

    The Golf Course Mystery Chester K. Steele

  • Endothelium-independent relaxation was assessed by generating cumulative concentration-response curves to the NO-donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) following stable pre-contraction with 10

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  • The UTMB study used sodium nitroprusside, a drug used in hospitals and administered intravenously.

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  • In injuries regressing primiparous hemispheres of nitroprusside, shorthair and commend siglas have marginalized with trying albicans of gait nitroprusside infusion.

    Wii-volution 2009

  • In injuries regressing primiparous hemispheres of nitroprusside, shorthair and commend siglas have marginalized with trying albicans of gait nitroprusside infusion.

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  • In injuries regressing primiparous hemispheres of nitroprusside, shorthair and commend siglas have marginalized with trying albicans of gait nitroprusside infusion.

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  • In injuries regressing primiparous hemispheres of nitroprusside, shorthair and commend siglas have marginalized with trying albicans of gait nitroprusside infusion.

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