cyanogen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The pseudohalogen (CN)₂; a colorless, poisonous gas used as a rocket propellant, an insecticide and in chemical warfare.
The radical -CN.

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cyanogen cyanogens

From cyano- + -gen; compare French cyanogène. So called because it produced blue dyes.

ethanedinitrile oxalonitrile dicyanogen nitriloacetonitrile

bromocyan bromocyanogen cyanogen bromide cyanogen chloride ferricyanogen ferrocyanogen hexacyanogen paracyanogen

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