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  • noun The act or process of kyanizing.

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kyanize +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • Bichloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate) is the material employed in the kyanization of timber, the probable mode of action being its combination with the albumen of the wood, to form an insoluble compound not susceptible of spontaneous decomposition, and therefore incapable of exciting fermentation.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

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