POTASSIUM CYANIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potassium cyanide mean? 

• POTASSIUM CYANIDE (noun)
  The noun POTASSIUM CYANIDE has 1 sense:

1. a poisonous salt (KCN) used in electroplating and in photography

  Familiarity information: POTASSIUM CYANIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTASSIUM CYANIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A poisonous salt (KCN) used in electroplating and in photography

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("potassium cyanide" is a kind of...):

cyanide (an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid)

 Context examples 

This species is motile, indole negative, hydrolyzes esculin, oxidase negative, reduces nitrate and does not grow in culture in the presence of potassium cyanide.

(Enterobacter gergoviae, NCI Thesaurus)