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cyanogen
"A colourless flammable highly poisonous gas made by oxidizing hydrogen cyanide", Early 19th century: from French
cyanogène
, from Greek
kuanos
'dark blue mineral' +
-gène
(see
-gen
), so named because it is a constituent of Prussian blue.