Examples of cyanide

• A cyanide will become decomposed and eliminate nitrogen gas, while the residue is charred. 

• Place one ounce of cyanide of potassium into the bottle and pour in enough dry sawdust to cover the lumps of poison. 

• Then, opening the clip, run through more cyanide solution and then water, so as to wash the gold-carrying liquor thoroughly into the beaker. 

• There is no hot water, no sterilising, no cyanide gauze even, but iodine saves many lives, and we have plenty of it. 

• When tested by cyanide of potassium the gold in the ore often changes into iron pyrites. 

• Both enzymes were insensitive to cyanide but sensitive to hydrogen peroxide, properties characteristic of iron-containing superoxide dismutase.

• Cyanogenesis in animal-plant interactions: cyanide compounds in biology.

• We propose that double metal cyanides might have acted as an important prebiotic catalyst.