sodium cyanide

1. 1.

   a white poisonous salt (NaCN) used in electroplating

   Broadercyanide

Questions about sodium cyanide

What does sodium cyanide mean?

sodium cyanide means "a white poisonous salt (NaCN) used in electroplating".

Is sodium cyanide a common word?

sodium cyanide 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.