cyanide
/ˈsaɪənaɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.24 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide"
- "Two doctors and a metallurgist from Scotland patented a process for dissolving gold with cyanide in 1887 and patented the recovery of gold from solution using finely divided zinc (zinc precipitation) the following year. […] The first commercial processing plant to use cyanide in the milling circuit was constructed at the Crown mine at Karangahake, New Zealand in 1889."
- "The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants."