Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A substance formed by heating mercury cyanide to a point short of redness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry A
polymeric modification ofcyanogen , obtained as a brown or blackamorphous residue by heatingmercuric cyanide .
Etymologies
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para- + cyanogen
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Examples
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Dr. Brown of Edinburgh thought he had converted iron into rhodium, and carbon or paracyanogen into silicon.
Familiar Letters on Chemistry Justus Freiherr von Liebig 1838
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