CPage 825
- English Word Cyamelide Definition A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.
- English Word Cyamellone Definition A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.
- English Word Cyanate Definition A salt of cyanic acid.
- English Word Cyanaurate Definition See Aurocyanide.
- English Word Cyanean Definition Having an azure color.
- English Word Cyanic Definition Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.
- English Word Cyanic Definition Of or pertaining to a blue color.
- English Word Cyanide Definition A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.
- English Word Cyanin Definition The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.
- English Word Cyanine Definition One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
- English Word Cyanite Definition A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.
- English Word Cyanogen Definition 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.
- English Word Cyanometer Definition An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.
- English Word Cyanopathy Definition 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.
- English Word Cyanophyll Definition A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.
- English Word Cyanosed Definition Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.
- English Word Cyanosis Definition A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.
- English Word Cyanosite Definition Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.
- English Word Cyanotic Definition Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.
- English Word Cyanotype Definition A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.