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Definition of Prussic
1. a. designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.
Definition of Prussic
1. Adjective. derived from Prussian blue ¹
2. Adjective. of, or derived from prussic acid; hydrocyanic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prussic
1. pertaining to a type of acid [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prussic
Literary usage of Prussic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"prussic Acid, HCN. When employing Neumann's method - for converting albumins into
ash, Aders Plimmer a noticed the presence of silver cyanide in the ..."
2. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"prussic, or hydrocyanic, acid differs entirely from the other acids in its ...
In nature, prussic acid occurs in the secretion of some of the myriapoda, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"The prussic acid appears to come over in the distilled oil. metala, ... prussic acid
and its combinations have been lately investigated by M. Gay-Lussac and ..."
4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"In a former paper the author endeavoured to show that prussic acid would combine
with black oxide of iron, or with sulphur, and form with them peculiar ..."
5. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy by Humphry Davy, John Davy (1840)
"ON THE prussic BASIS AND ACID.* IN the last article I have defended some opinions
of my own, and combated some of M. Gay Lussac's. ..."
6. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, John James Reese (1873)
"HYDROCYANIC, OR prussic ACID. Appearances.—The body when seen soon after death
often exhales the odor of prussic acid ; but if it has remained exposed ..."
7. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"prussic ACID. PART CVIII. THIS acid derives its name from the pigment ...
PROPERTIES OP prussic ACID. prussic acid exists in the form of a colourless fluid. ..."
8. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum, Thomas Cooper (1814)
"prussic ACID. PART CVIII. THIS acid derives its name from the pigment ...
PROPERTIES OF prussic ACID. prussic acid exists in the form of a colourless fluid. ..."
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