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Hydrogen glows red, helium glows yellow, and cyanogen glows green. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Why Is the 'Christmas Comet' Green?," 18 Dec. 2018 The comet currently passing by Earth, comet 46P/Wirtanen, has a substantial amount of cyanogen. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Why Is the 'Christmas Comet' Green?," 18 Dec. 2018 His biggest coup was providing the Brits with the design of a chemical warfare dispersal device manufactured from parts that could be found in a tool shed and was capable of spreading deadly cyanogen chloride or other agents. — NBC News, "He spied on al Qaeda from the inside, until he had to run for his life," 17 June 2018 A study published in 2014 in Environmental Science & Technology, for example, found that when uric acid in human urine mixes with chlorine, a toxic compound called cyanogen chloride (CNCI) and trichloramine (NCl3) is formed, TIME reported. — Melinda Carstensen, Fox News, "There's probably pee in your swimming pool — what's the health risk?," 2 Mar. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cyanogen.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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