hydrocyanic acid

1. 1.

   a solution of hydrogen cyanide in water; weak solutions are used in fumigating and in the synthesis of organic compounds

   Synonymsprussic acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about hydrocyanic acid

What does hydrocyanic acid mean?

hydrocyanic acid means "a solution of hydrogen cyanide in water; weak solutions are used in fumigating and in the synthesis of organic compounds".

What is another word for hydrocyanic acid?

Close synonyms include prussic acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hydrocyanic acid a common word?

hydrocyanic 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.