a salt of hydrocyanic acid, 1826, coined from cyan-, comb. form for carbon and nitrogen compounds, from Greek kyanos "dark blue" (see cyan) + chemical ending -ide, on analogy of chloride. So called because it first had been obtained by heating the dye pigment powder known as Prussian blue (see Prussian).
实用例句
1. The police say he swallowed a cyanide capsule to avoid arrest.
警察说他为了逃避逮捕就吞了一颗氰化物胶囊。来自柯林斯例句
2. Someone had fed him a lethal dose of cyanide.
有人给他下了致命剂量的氰化物。来自柯林斯例句
3. Cyanide is used to kill insects.
氰化物可用来杀害虫.来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Cyanide can serve as precursor for the amide nitrogen of asparagine.
氰化物可以作一个天门冬酰胺的酰胺氮前体.来自辞典例句
5. It may, however, serve as a mechanism for cyanide detoxification.
