cyanic acid

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   a colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide

   Broaderacid

Questions about cyanic acid

What does cyanic acid mean?

cyanic acid means "a colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide".

Is cyanic acid a common word?

cyanic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.