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cyanic acid

noun

Chemistry.
  1. an unstable, poisonous, liquid acid, HOCN, isomeric with fulminic acid.


cyanic acid

/ ɪˈæɪ /

noun

  1. a colourless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyses readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide. Formula: HOCN Compare isocyanic acid fulminic acid
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cyanic acid

/ ī-ăĭ /

  1. A poisonous, unstable, and highly volatile organic acid used to prepare cyanates. Chemical formula: HOCN.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cyanic acid1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Substituted ammonias were also made to combine with cyanic acid, and it was found that the substituted ammonium cyanates produced pass much more readily into the corresponding ureas than ammonium cyanate itself.

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In cyanuric acid, hydrated cyanic acid, and cyamelide, we have three such isomeric compounds.

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Cyanogen chloride, CNCl, may be regarded as the chloride of cyanic acid.

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Hydrated cyanic acid is a volatile and highly blistering fluid, which cannot be brought into contact with water without being instantaneously decomposed.

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And, again inversely, cyamelide can be converted into cyanuric acid and hydrated cyanic acid.

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