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Definition of cyanide
1 : a compound of cyanogen with a more electropositive element or group: such asa : potassium cyanideb : sodium cyanide
2 : cyanogen 1
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Despite his intent to disrupt the shady business of recreational-drug purchasing, Ulbricht saw the Silk Road become a hub for exchanging everything from hacking tools and drug-laboratory equipment to cocaine and cyanide.
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The cyanide devices are also used to protect cattle.
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The cyanide devices are also used to protect cattle.
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Shortly after arriving at the spa, also known as Pacific Health Restoration Center, Hirsh received a regime of laetrile, which contains cyanide and is banned by the Food and Drug Administration.
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The setbacks at Veladero threaten to undermine efforts to cast mining in a more positive light in other Argentine provinces where the use of cyanide and open-pit operations are banned or face community opposition.
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One word of caution: Garlic mustard contains traces of cyanide, which is most likely the plants’ defense mechanism against becoming a meal.
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Tetrodotoxin, found in some pufferfish species, is a thousand times more deadly to humans than cyanide.
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Astronomers, including ourselves, have already begun investigating the compositions of giant planets around other stars, detecting molecules such as water, carbon monoxide, methane, and hydrogen cyanide.
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cyanide
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: any of several compounds containing carbon and nitrogen and including two very poisonous substances
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cyanide
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: any of several compounds (as potassium cyanide) that contain the radical CN having a chemical valence of one, react with and inactivate respiratory enzymes, and are rapidly lethal producing drowsiness, tachycardia, coma, and finally death
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