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English
Noun
hydrogen cyanide (uncountable)
- (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.
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Translations
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 山埃 (saan1 aai1)
- Mandarin: 氰化氫 / 氰化氢 (zh) (qínghuàqīng, qīnghuàqīng)
- Czech: kyanovodík m
- Esperanto: hidrogena cianido
- Finnish: syaanivety, syaanivetyhappo, sinihappo, formonitriili
- French: cyanure d’hydrogène (fr) m
- German: Cyanwasserstoff m
- Greek: υδροκυάνιο (el) n (ydrokyánio)
- Hungarian: hidrogén-cianid (hu), ciánhidrogén (hu)
- Japanese: 青酸 (ja) (seisan), シアン化水素 (shianka suiso)
- Korean: 시안화수소(化水素) (sianhwasuso), 청산(靑酸) (ko) (cheongsan), 청화수소(靑化水素) (cheonghwasuso)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hydrogencyanid n
- Nynorsk: hydrogencyanid n
- Persian: هیدروژن سیانید (hidrožen siyânid)
- Polish: cyjanowodór (pl) m
- Portuguese: cianeto/cianureto de hidrogénio/hidrogênio m
- Swedish: vätecyanid (sv), blåsyra (sv), cyanväte (sv), cyanvätesyra
- Thai: ไฮโดรเจนไซยาไนด์ (hai-droo-jeen-sai-yaa-nai)
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