Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salt, ester, or anion of thiocyanic acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., a salt analagous in composition to a cyanate, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, as potassium thiocyanate, KCNS, which is produced by the direct union of sulphur with potassium cyanide.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Same as
sulphocyanate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry any
salt orester ofthiocyanic acid ; or the -SCNradical or the SCN-1anion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a salt of thiocyanic acid; formed when alkaline cyanides are fused with sulfur
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Examples
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The Pearson theory of hard and soft ligands and metals was new and fashionable at the time, so Prof. Kline wanted me to find out if thiocyanate could simultaneously bind with its "soft" sulfur to a soft metal and its "hard" nitrogen to a hard metal, e.g. PhHg – SCN – Cr (III).
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My first exposure to a research environment was in a National Science Foundation-sponsored summer research program at Ohio University in 1967, where I was assigned to work in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Kline on the ambident coordination of thiocyanate (SCN –).
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He hoped that the infrared absorbances of thiocyanate would tell us whether such bridging was taking place.
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It also sees through such chemical masking agents as cobaltous thiocyanate, which sophisticated drug dealers mix into cocaine to fool the Scott test.
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One of the major types (sinigrin, also the major mustard precursor) tastes bitter itself but produces a nonbitter thiocyanate, while the other (progoitrin) is nonbitter but produces a bitter thiocyanate.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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One of the major types (sinigrin, also the major mustard precursor) tastes bitter itself but produces a nonbitter thiocyanate, while the other (progoitrin) is nonbitter but produces a bitter thiocyanate.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Last of the three was the best of them all, cobalt thiocyanate.
Money, Money, Money McBain, Ed, 1926- 2001
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If more than 10 mg of cyanide is consumed, but not enough to be fatal, it is converted to a far less toxic substance called thiocyanate.
10: Food science 1996
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Intravenous injection of thiosulfate will increase the sulfur available to convert cyanide to thiocyanate.
10: Food science 1996
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"The affected population consumed flour made from short-soaked (one day) cassava roots and thus had high dietary exposure to cyanide (urinary thiocyanate in 31 children was 757 vs. 50 units for a population where cassava had been soaked for the normal three days)."
10: Food science 1996
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