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CYANIDE , in See also:

chemistry, a See also:salt of prussic or hydrocyanic See also:acid, the name being more usually restricted to inorganic salts, i.e. the salts of the metals, the organic salts (or See also:esters) being termed nitriles. The preparation, properties, &c., of cyanides are treated in the See also:article PRUSSIC ACID; reference should also be made to the articles on the particular metals. The most important cyanide commercially is See also:potassium cyanide, which receives application in the " cyanide See also:process " of See also:gold extraction (see GOLD).

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