Usually means: Potent, fast-acting poison compound.
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  1. potassium cyanide: Merriam-Webster
  2. potassium cyanide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. potassium cyanide: Collins English Dictionary
  4. potassium cyanide: Vocabulary.com
  5. potassium cyanide: Wiktionary
  6. potassium cyanide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. potassium cyanide: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. potassium cyanide: Dictionary.com
  9. Potassium cyanide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. potassium cyanide: Rhymezone
  11. potassium cyanide: FreeDictionary.org
  12. potassium cyanide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. potassium cyanide: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. potassium cyanide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. potassium cyanide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. potassium cyanide: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (potassium cyanide)

noun:  (inorganic chemistry) The potassium salt of hydrocyanic acid, KCN; the colourless crystals are soluble in water, and it is extremely poisonous, and is used in electroplating, the extraction of gold and silver from their ores, and in photography.

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