What is use of HCN?

Answer 1

HCN is a compound called hydrogen cyanide. It is commonly known as just cyanide and became infamous as a poison. It is a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom and a nitrogen atom combined in what is called a linear molecular shape. The nitrogen has 3 bonds to the central carbon, and the hydrogen has a single bond to the carbon.

Answer 2

HCN is a gas that you can easily breathe into your lungs. It smell like almonds. Cyanide bonds (irreversibly) to the site where oxygen usually binds causing death from suffocation.

Answer 3

It is famous for its use a a poison, but a derivative of it KCN is used in mining gold.

Answer 4

It is not an element, it is a compound known as hydrogen cyanide.

It contains three elements: hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen.

Answer 5

Hydrogen Cyanide

Answer 6

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