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CYANIC ACID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cyanic acid mean?
• CYANIC ACID (noun)
The noun CYANIC ACID has 1 sense:
1. a colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide
Familiarity information: CYANIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("cyanic acid" is a kind of...):
acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
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