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CYANIDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYANIDE  , in

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chemistry, a
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salt of prussic or hydrocyanic
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acid, the name being more usually restricted to inorganic salts, i.e. the salts of the metals, the organic salts (or
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esters) being termed nitriles . The preparation, properties, &c., of cyanides are treated in the
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article PRUSSIC ACID; reference should also be made to the articles on the particular metals . The most important cyanide commercially is
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potassium cyanide, which receives application in the " cyanide
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process " of
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gold extraction (see GOLD) .

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