thiocyanic acid

1. 1.

   an unstable acid that can be obtained by distilling a thiocyanate salt

   Broaderacid

Questions about thiocyanic acid

What does thiocyanic acid mean?

thiocyanic acid means "an unstable acid that can be obtained by distilling a thiocyanate salt".

Is thiocyanic acid a common word?

thiocyanic 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.