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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Persulphocyanogen

· Per·sul·pho·cy·an·o·gen · IPA
01 n. An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also…
  1. 1.
    An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen.(Chem.) Also: pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, sulphocyanogen