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hydrogen cyanide
Sign in to saveAlso known as hydrocyanic acid, Formonitrile, Prussic acid, [CHN], HCN, methanenitrile
chemical compound
Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous chemical compound made of hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen atoms bonded together. It matters because it has industrial uses in manufacturing but is also dangerous to human health, making it an important substance to handle carefully and understand for safety reasons.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- CHN
- Molecular weight
- 27.025 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- formonitrile
- SMILES
- C#N
- InChIKey
- LELOWRISYMNNSU-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.1
- Polar surface area
- 23.8 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
37,516 papers- Hydrogen cyanide-an update.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2017Gidlow DDOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqx121
- Biological hydrogen cyanide emission globally impacts the physiology of both HCN-emitting and HCN-perceiving Pseudomonas.mBio · 2023Anand A, Falquet L, Abou-Mansour E et al.DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00857-23
- Cometary Delivery of Hydrogen Cyanide to the Early Earth.Astrobiology · 2020Todd ZR, Öberg KIDOI: 10.1089/ast.2019.2187
- Smoke inhalation & acute cyanide poisoning. Hydrogen cyanide poisoning proves increasingly common in smoke-inhalation victims.ReviewJEMS : a journal of emergency medical services · 2004Alcorta R
- Assessing potential hydrogen cyanide exposure from cyanide-contaminated mine tailing management practices in Thailand's gold mining.Journal of environmental management · 2019Tran QB, Lohitnavy M, Phenrat TDOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109357
- The origin of hydrogen cyanide in breath.Archives of toxicology · 1988Lundquist P, Rosling H, Sörbo BDOI: 10.1007/BF00364849
- Old poisons, new signaling molecules: the case of hydrogen cyanide.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Díaz-Rueda P, Morales de Los Ríos L, Romero LC et al.DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad317
- The inhibition of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase by the gases carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen sulfide: chemical mechanism and physiological significance.ReviewJournal of bioenergetics and biomembranes · 2008Cooper CE, Brown GCDOI: 10.1007/s10863-008-9166-6
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 27.011
- Image
- Hydrogen cyanide.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hydrogen cyanide
- pKa
- 9.21
- canonical SMILES
- [H+].[C-]#N
- boiling point
- 26
- NIOSH Pocket Guide ID
- 0333
- density
- 0.000671
- immediately dangerous to life or health
- 55
- melting point
- -13.4
- refractive index
- 1.2675
- vapor pressure
- 630
- lower flammable limit
- 5.6
- upper flammable limit
- 40
- ionization energy
- 13.60
- time-weighted average exposure limit
- 11
- short-term exposure limit
- 5
- chemical formula
- CHN
- electric dipole moment
- 2.984
- dynamic viscosity
- 0.201
- flash point
- -17.8
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Encyclopedic overview
Names
IUPAC name Formonitrile
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