Definition of "cyanides" []

• Plural form of cyanide. (noun)

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• "In recent years, space scientists have discovered one comet that contains minerals created at extremely high temperatures, another that belches gases containing cyanides, one that has a surface fluffier than snow and another that has a firm surface peppered with craters."
• "Take two cyanides, er, aspirins and call me in the morning."
• "Other inorganic nitrogen compounds are nitric acid (HNO3), ammonia (NH3), the oxides (NO, NO2, N2O4, N2O), cyanides (CN -), etc. Ammonia"