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prussic acid

noun

, Chemistry.


prussic acid

/ ˈprʌsɪk /

noun

  1. the weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
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prussic acid

/ prŭsĭk /

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Word History and Origins

Origin of prussic acid1

1780–90; translation of French acide prussique (equivalent to Prusse Prussia + -ique -ic ); so called because it was first obtained by heating Prussian blue with sulfuric acid
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Word History and Origins

Origin of prussic acid1

C18: from French acide prussique Prussian acid, so called because obtained from Prussian blue
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Example Sentences

The police also found no medicines in Orme's rooms except for a bottle of sleeping pills and two labels - that of arsenic and prussic acid.

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The factory had been producing acrylic glass and prussic acid.

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Other sinister details emerged: Lizzie was reportedly seen trying to buy highly poisonous prussic acid the day before the killings.

“I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel,” wrote the editor of the Sunday Express.

We believed it was prussic acid, a worrying thought since we knew that our gas masks provided no protection against that chemical.

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