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Webster 1913 Edition


Prussic

Prus′sic

,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
prussique
.]
(Old Chem.)
designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See
Hydrocyanic
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prussic

PRUSSIC

,
Adj.
The prussic acid is a compound of kyanogen or cyanogen, prussic gas and hydrogen, and hence called hydrocyanic acid. It is one of the strongest poisons known.

Definition 2024


prussic

prussic

English

Adjective

prussic (not comparable)

  1. derived from Prussian blue
  2. of, or derived from prussic acid; hydrocyanic

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