CYANOGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cyanogen mean? 

• CYANOGEN (noun)
  The noun CYANOGEN has 1 sense:

1. a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare

  Familiarity information: CYANOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYANOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("cyanogen" is a kind of...):

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

Derivation:

cyanogenetic; cyanogenic (capable of producing cyanide)

 Context examples 

As a reagent for peptide mapping and amino acid sequence analysis, cyanogen bromide hydrolyzes peptide bonds at methionine residues in peptides and proteins.

(Cyanogen Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)