Examples of 'cyanide' in a sentence

Meaning of "cyanide"

cyanide (noun) - A highly toxic chemical compound containing carbon and nitrogen, often used in industrial processes and as a poison
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  • Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.
  • Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.
  • Hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas, a poisonous gas.
  • To treat or poison with cyanide.

How to use "cyanide" in a sentence

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I know that hydrogen cyanide is a lethal poison.
Some cyanide in their food and we are sorted.
From adverse effects of cyanide process solutions.
Cyanide slows our ability to absorb oxygen.
It confirms that cyanide was the cause of death.
Cyanide interferes directly with this process.
I will swallow a cyanide tablet if they capture me.
Cyanide works by stopping the absorption of oxygen.
Perhaps with a cyanide pie in the face.
Cyanide poisoning was established as the cause of death.
I switched the cyanide with the laudanum.
Cyanide was also found in this coffee mug.
I slipped some cyanide into the cup.
Benzyl cyanide is a useful precursor to numerous pharmaceuticals.
Someone gave her cyanide in the hospital.

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Silver cyanide solutions are used in electroplating of silver.
He poisoned his family with potassium cyanide.
Ban on use of cyanide mining technologies debate.
There is no significant residue of cyanide in the brickwork.
Carry the cyanide capsules at all times.
Only pill they could give me is cyanide.
I have got a cyanide capsule in a false tooth.
We will keep working on the cyanide delivery.
Died of cyanide poisoning five weeks ago.
Sam would drink it if it was laced with cyanide.
He wants some cyanide to bleach his dust.
Several communities have been exposed to cyanide spills.
She swallowed cyanide to avoid getting arrested.
Rough patches do not usually include cyanide.
You know my cyanide release was automatic on capture.
And its teeth are impregnated with cyanide.
Ammonium cyanide is generally used in organic synthesis.
Environmental effects upon cyanide toxicity to fish.
He had cyanide with him in case he was arrested.
Fate plus a few grains of potassium cyanide.
He died of cyanide poisoning a few years later.
Times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide.
Goldschmidt kept the cyanide in his pocket.
Two days before he took the cyanide.
My cyanide capsule in my back left molar.
An example is the classification of sodium cyanide in solution.
They have a cyanide derivative mixed with wax.
The police even found his cyanide.
Cyanide induces fatality in a matter of seconds.
But we do not hand out cyanide pills.
As it seems that cyanide was only expediting the inevitable.
There is a partial print on a syringe containing cyanide.
I think he either stole cyanide or some money.
It is possible to boil away most of the cyanide.
We traced the cyanide to this watercooler.

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