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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poisonous, unstable, highly volatile organic acid, HOCN, used to prepare cyanates.
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- noun chemistry An
unstable , highlyvolatile ,poisonous acid, HOCN, used to preaprecyanates ;hydrolyzes in water to giveammonia andcarbon dioxide
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- noun a colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide
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