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n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -gen: cf. F. cyanogène. So called because it produced blue dyes. ] (Chem.) A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cyanogen is found in the commercial substances, potassium cyanide, or prussiate of potash, yellow prussiate of potash, Prussian blue, Turnbull's blue, prussic acid, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -meter: cf. F. cyanomètre. ] An instrument for measuring degress of blueness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + pa`qos affection. ] (Med.) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + fy`llon leaf. ] (Bot.) A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cyanic. ] Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient aëration of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Cyanic. ] (Med.) A condition in which, from insufficient aëration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cyanic. ] (Min.) Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyanide + -type. ] A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. para- + cyanogen. ] (Chem.) A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Same as Persulphocyanogen. [ 1913 Webster ]