Meanings
nounsilver cyanide (plural silver cyanides)
plural silver cyanides
- The chemical compound with the formula AgCN; a white salt that is precipitated upon treatment of solutions containing Ag+ with cyanide, which is used in some schemes to recover silver from solution.
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