cyanide

青酸塩、シアン化物

非常に毒性の強い塩。岩石から金や銀を取り出す際にも使われる。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： potassium cyanide, sodium cyanide, cyanide poisoning

シアン化合物

炭素原子一つと窒素原子一つからなる基を含む化学物質。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： organic cyanide, metal cyanide, cyanide compound

シアン化水素、青酸ガス

水素、炭素、窒素を含む有毒な気体。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： hydrogen cyanide

よく使う表現： hydrogen cyanide, cyanide gas, cyanide fumes

シアン化処理する、青酸で毒殺する

シアン化物で物を処理する、またはその毒で人を殺す。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： cyanide the ore, cyanide someone