"silver cyanide" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: silver cyanides [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} silver cyanide (plural silver cyanides)
  1. The chemical compound with the formula AgCN; a white salt that is precipitated upon treatment of solutions containing Ag+ with cyanide, which is used in some schemes to recover silver from solution.
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Inflected forms

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