yellow prussiate of potash

1. 1.

   a cyanide compound that is prepared by the reaction of potassium cyanide with ferrous salts; commonly used by gardeners

   Synonymspotassium ferrocyanide

   Broaderferrocyanide

Questions about yellow prussiate of potash

What does yellow prussiate of potash mean?

yellow prussiate of potash means "a cyanide compound that is prepared by the reaction of potassium cyanide with ferrous salts; commonly used by gardeners".

What is another word for yellow prussiate of potash?

Close synonyms include potassium ferrocyanide. 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 yellow prussiate of potash a common word?

yellow prussiate of potash 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.