| prussiate | <chemistry> A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide. Red prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferricyanide, under Ferricyanide. Yellow prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferrocyanide. Origin: Cf. F. Prussiate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| prussic | <chemistry> Designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic. Origin: Cf. F. Prussique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| prussic acid | HCN;a colourless, very toxic liquid, with the odour of bitter almonds, present in bitter almonds (amygdalin), the stones of peaches, plums and other fruits, and laurel leaves; inhalation of 300 p.p.m. Causes death. Synonym: hydrogen cyanide, prussic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prutenic | <astronomy> Prussian; applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |