"hydrogen cyanide" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} hydrogen cyanide (uncountable)
  1. (inorganic chemistry) A colourless, very poisonous, volatile liquid, HCN, used in the production of dyes, plastics and fumigants; it dissolves in water to form hydrocyanic acid and reacts with bases to form cyanides, and with some organic compounds to form nitriles. Wikipedia link: hydrogen cyanide Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Inorganic compounds Synonyms: chyazic acid, formonitrile, Nevada gas Related terms: hydrocyanic acid Translations (the compound HCN): 山埃 (saan¹ aai¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 氰化氫 /氰化氢 (qínghuàqīng, qīnghuàqīng) (Chinese Mandarin), kyanovodík [masculine] (Czech), hidrogena cianido (Esperanto), syaanivety (Finnish), syaanivetyhappo (Finnish), sinihappo (Finnish), formonitriili (Finnish), cyanure d’hydrogène [masculine] (French), Cyanwasserstoff [masculine] (German), υδροκυάνιο (ydrokyánio) [neuter] (Greek), hidrogén-cianid (Hungarian), ciánhidrogén (Hungarian), 青酸 (seisan) (Japanese), シアン化水素 (shianka suiso) (Japanese), 시안화수소 (sianhwasuso) (alt: 化水素) (Korean), 청산 (cheongsan) (alt: 靑酸) (Korean), 청화수소 (cheonghwasuso) (alt: 靑化水素) (Korean), hydrogencyanid [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), hydrogencyanid [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), هیدروژن سیانید (hidrožen siyânid) (Persian), cyjanowodór [masculine] (Polish), cianeto/cianureto de hidrogénio/hidrogênio [masculine] (Portuguese), vätecyanid (Swedish), blåsyra (Swedish), cyanväte (Swedish), cyanvätesyra (Swedish), ไฮโดรเจนไซยาไนด์ (hai-droo-jeen-sai-yaa-nai) (Thai)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.