cyanide

cyanure

Sel chimique très toxique, également utilisé pour extraire l’or ou l’argent des roches.

En anglais simple : A very poisonous chemical salt, also used to separate gold or silver from rock.

• The laboratory keeps cyanide in a locked cupboard.
• Cyanide is used in some gold mines.
• Tests found cyanide in the dead man's drink.

Expressions courantes : potassium cyanide, sodium cyanide, cyanide poisoning

cyanure

Substance chimique contenant un groupe constitué d’un atome de carbone et d’un atome d’azote.

En anglais simple : A chemical containing a particular group made of one carbon atom and one nitrogen atom.

• The compound is a cyanide.
• Several metal cyanides were identified in the sample.
• The chemist compared an organic cyanide with an inorganic compound.

Expressions courantes : organic cyanide, metal cyanide, cyanide compound

cyanure d'hydrogène, gaz cyanhydrique

Gaz toxique composé d’hydrogène, de carbone et d’azote.

En anglais simple : A poisonous gas containing hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen.

• The fire released cyanide gas.
• Workers wore masks to avoid breathing hydrogen cyanide.
• Sensors detected cyanide in the air near the tank.

Synonymes : hydrogen cyanide

Expressions courantes : hydrogen cyanide, cyanide gas, cyanide fumes

cyanurer, empoisonner au cyanure

Traiter quelque chose avec du cyanure ou utiliser ce poison pour tuer quelqu’un.

En anglais simple : To treat something with a poisonous carbon-and-nitrogen chemical, or use it to kill someone.

• The workers cyanided the ore.
• The report described how the metal had been cyanided.
• The detective suspected that someone had cyanided the victim.

Expressions courantes : cyanide the ore, cyanide someone