CYANAMIDE

cyanamide, calcium-cyanamide

(noun) a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds

cyanamide, cyanamid

(noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

cyanamide (countable and uncountable, plural cyanamides)

(chemistry) A chemical compound, NH2CN; a white crystalline solid, soluble in water, having many commercial applications including fertilizer

(organic compound) Any derivative of this compound in which one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by an alkyl or aryl group

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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