PRUSSIC ACID


Meaning of PRUSSIC ACID in English

Chem.

See hydrocyanic acid .

[ 1780-90; trans. of F acide prussique (equiv. to Prusse PRUSSIA + -ique -IC); so called because it was first obtained by heating Prussian blue with sulfuric acid ]

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