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How to pronounce cyanide in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms nitril, nitrile
Type of organic compound
Has types propenonitrile, acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide
Type Words
Type of salt
Has types sodium cyanide, potassium cyanide

Examples of cyanide

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The projectiles were vaporised, but a lot of cyanide was created in the process.
From the newscientist.com
Turing was just 41 when he ended his life by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
From the cnn.com
One SS officer later said they each took cyanide and were shot by an SS trooper.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Confronted with formidable offenses, the choice is sometimes hemlock or cyanide.
From the usatoday.com
Hitler proposes shooting through the mouth, while Braun mentions taking cyanide.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Mothers feed cyanide-laced Kool-Aid to their children, then drink it themselves.
From the bostonherald.com
Deadly cyanide need no longer be used in gold mining, say Australian scientists.
From the newscientist.com
Their leafy diets contain high levels of cyanide, which may lead to indigestion.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A cyanide tank became a chicken coop, an old tractor was jury-rigged to cut wood.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Nitrile: any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN
  • An extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid
  • A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains monovalent combining group CN. This group, known as the cyano group, consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom.
  • "Cyanide" is the 42nd single by American heavy metal band Metallica, and the third from their ninth studio album, Death Magnetic. ...
  • Cyanide is a game development studio, based in the western suburbs of Paris, France, with offices in Montreal, Canada and Chengdu, China. The studio was created in 2000 by 8 ex-UbiSoft employees and in 2007 has a headcount of 70. ...
  • (Cyanides) toxic inorganic chemical compounds containing cyanide (-CN) groups and classed as special waste
  • (Cyanidation) A method of extracting gold or silver by dissolving it in a weak cyanide solution.
  • (Cyanidation) a process in which crushed gold ore is treated with an aqueous cyanide solution in the presence of air to dissolve the gold. Pure gold is recovered by reduction of the ion to the metal
  • (Cyaniding) A process of case hardening an iron-base alloy by the simultaneous absorption of carbon and nitrogen by heating in a cyanide salt. Cyaniding is usually followed by quenching to produce a hard case.