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Example sentences for "hydrocyanic acid"

  • Like the Emulsine in the production of Hydrocyanic acid out of the material of the bitter almond, they must be present in certain quantity, or they are quite inoperative.

  • Hydrocyanic acid is not formed during putrefaction, nor by heating organic substances with chemical reagents at temperatures up to 212° F.

  • Hydrocyanic acid, ready formed, has been found in the roots of the bitter and sweet cassava (Jatropha manihot).

  • Under certain conditions sorghum contains enough hydrocyanic acid to make it exceedingly dangerous to cattle.

  • There is some reason to think that the frosted second growth is particularly rich in hydrocyanic acid.

  • It is chiefly used as a test of the purity of hydrocyanic acid.

  • It may also be advantageously substituted for the ferrocyanide in the preparation of hydrocyanic acid by the distillation of that substance along with dilute sulphuric acid.

  • On adding a few drops of diluted sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and thus dissolving the oxides, the prussian blue will immediately be made clear if hydrocyanic acid be present.

  • Hydrocyanate of Iron (Tilden’s) combines well known properties of ferruginous salts with the sedative action of Hydrocyanic acid.

  • As Prussian blue yields no appreciable quantity of hydrocyanic acid under the conditions existing in the animal organism, “the sedative action of hydrocyanic acid” must be as hypothetical as the chalybeate properties attributed to it.

  • Manipulations with this fluid easily develop hydrocyanic acid fumes, which, in one case related by Martin (Aerztl.

  • The vapour of hydrocyanic acid, if present, will form a white precipitate which may be tested.

  • Poisoning, as by hydrocyanic acid, cyanide of potassium, inhalation of carbonic acid or coal gas, oedema of glottis following inhalation of ammonia.

  • Hydrocyanic acid adds to its sedative qualities, or when pain is present, with diarrhoea, opium in some form may be added.

  • White masses or powder, odorless when perfectly dry; deliquescent in the air and exhaling the odor of hydrocyanic acid.

  • Every chemist should be familiar with the faint but very characteristic odor of hydrocyanic acid,[1] which should instantly and automatically warn him of the presence of this potent poison.

  • Hydrocyanic acid is one of the weakest acids (table, p.

  • Hydrocyanic acid, on the other hand, is an exceedingly weak acid.

  • Cyanide of potassium, when left in a bottle, generates prussic or hydrocyanic acid.

  • Hydrocyanic acid, again, which is so deadly a poison to animals, caused rapid movement of the tentacles.

  • SIR,--In October, 1841, I gave an account of the action of the vapour of hydrocyanic acid upon diseases of the eye.

  • Paris so remarkable, as even alone to supply decisive evidence of poisoning by hydrocyanic acid.

  • The action of these medicines is very different from that of the hydrocyanic acid, in as far as they both stimulate the eye, and produce much greater warmth and irritation, with less dilatation of the pupil.

  • Morbid appearances produced by hydrocyanic acid in a case related by Hufeland.


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