cyanogen

IPA: saɪˈænʌdʒʌn

(organic chemistry) The pseudohalogen (CN)₂; a colourless, poisonous gas used as a rocket propellant, an insecticide and in chemical warfare.
(chemistry) The radical -CN.

Examples of "cyanogen" in Sentences

I think we can get the formula out of him for curing this cyanogen damage.
"Heat it -- to ninety, or a hundred degrees -- it gives off a deadly gas -- cyanogen."
Supposedly the cancer cells would gobble it up, free the cyanogen portion of the molecule and be poisoned.
In 1910, many people panicked when astronomers revealed Earth would pass through the cyanogen-rich tail of Comet Halley.
Jets spewing from the comet's nucleus contain cyanogen (CN: a poisonous gas found in many comets) and diatomic carbon (C2).
A second commentator suggested it might have been a piece of a comet; comets often contain cyanogen, which at low levels could cause the symptoms described.
False alarm: The wispy tail of the comet couldn't penetrate Earth's dense atmosphere; even it if had penetrated, there wasn't enough cyanogen to cause real trouble.
Last month, its instruments showed that the comet was emitting a toxic gas called cyanogen whose output increased fivefold over an eight-day period before slowly decreasing again.