Cyanide

//ˈsaɪənaɪd//

"Cyanide" in a Sentence (13 examples)

That's cyanide.

All the fish in this lake died from cyanide poisoning.

Layla ordered cyanide online.

Layla bought cyanide on the Internet.

Layla was poisoned with cyanide.

Sami has been poisoned with cyanide.

On a recent weekday afternoon in Ho Chi Minh City, the passengers bouncing along on one of the city's green buses breathed in mouthfuls of carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and other chemicals that add to Vietnam's notorious pollution. The toxic smoke did not come from the bus itself, but from the man driving it — one hand supporting the wheel, the other holding a cigarette.

Tobacco smoke contains hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas.

Elsila and her team will look for the molecules, such as formaldehyde or hydrogen cyanide, that form amino acids to shed light on the primordial chemistry of the solar system.

From a gold mine in Baia Mare, Romania, the Tisza River was contaminated with a release of 180 times the deadly dose of cyanide. It is estimated that 1,700 tonnes of fish were killed.

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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.

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