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A cyanide compound such as potassium cyanide is highly soluble in water and dissolves as easily as table salt. As for the speed of reaction with other chemicals, that really depends which chemicals we are talking about, however, it does react rapidly to some chemicals, since as hydrochloric acid, which when added to a solution of potassium cyanide would produce an immediate release of highly toxic cyanogen gas.

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