How to Use hydrogen cyanide in a Sentence

hydrogen cyanide

noun
  • This is mixed with the faint, bitter, almond-like aroma of hydrogen cyanide.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2014
  • There’s also the matter of hydrogen cyanide.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Health officials said that the hydrogen cyanide at current levels is safe.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 1 July 2019
  • Plus, the human body can process hydrogen cyanide in small doses, so eating a few seeds is not dangerous.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 20 May 2015
  • This ice cloud is a hybrid of hydrogen cyanide and benzene, which condensed together.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Thirty raw peach seeds also comes to an ounce and contain around 204 miligrams of hydrogen cyanide.
    — Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The amount of hydrogen cyanide is too small to be immediately observed.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • When burned, the toxin can turn into hydrogen cyanide, according to researchers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Thirty raw peach seeds also comes to an ounce and contain around 204 milligrams of hydrogen cyanide.
    — Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 30 Jan. 2018
  • That includes heavy metals, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
  • Myrosinase converts the amino acids in these fruits into toxic compounds known as hydrogen cyanide that can be fatal to dogs.
    — Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022
  • What’s left of the compound can then decompose, producing hydrogen cyanide.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 20 May 2015
  • One worker was overcome by hydrogen cyanide gas while cleaning the tank and sustained permanent brain damage.
    — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Kohoutek also marked the first direct detection of methyl cyanide, hydrogen cyanide and silicates in a comet.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
  • No direct measuring of hydrogen cyanide or exposure studies have been done.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 1 July 2019
  • The poison is hydrogen cyanide, a colorless, odorless gas that is deadly to many Earth creatures.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • To measure the ideal conditions for life to form, the researchers filled a vat with hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen sulphite.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The products all contained myclobutanil, a fungicide that can transform into hydrogen cyanide when burned.
    — NBC News, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In Arizona, where 115 inmates are on death row, hydrogen cyanide has been deployed before.
    — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • The last case was in 1999, when Arizona used clouds of hydrogen cyanide to execute an inmate.
    — Author: Denise Grady, Jan Hoffman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2018
  • Simple compounds such as hydrogen cyanide and ammonia dissolved and were transformed into amino acids and other complex forms.
    — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The sodium cyanide quickly reacts with moisture in the animal’s mouth, releasing hydrogen cyanide gas.
    — National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2017
  • The vapor from the counterfeit Kingpen cartridge was also found to contain hydrogen cyanide.
    — Conor Ferguson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Additional analysis will be performed at a different lab to find out if hydrogen cyanide, which is found in a car's exhaust, played a factor.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Consuming this toxin can release poisonous hydrogen cyanide into the bloodstream.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 30 June 2026
  • The research team identified acetylene, ammonia, ethane, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, water, and high amounts of methanol in the comet.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2021
  • On the other hand, molecules like hydrogen cyanide were found to form close to the star but don't appear to directly participate in dust formation.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Fine particles can penetrate deep into people’s bodies, along with gases that include carbon monoxide, styrene gas and hydrogen cyanide.
    — Ellen M. Considine, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
  • On Earth, glycine forms when hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and organic compounds called aldehydes react with each other in warm water.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That collision produced new molecules of hydrogen cyanide in Jupiter’s stratosphere, which the stratospheric winds have been blowing away ever since.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021

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