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Cyanamide

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Noun

1. cyanamid, cyanamide

a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts)

2. calcium-cyanamide, cyanamide

a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cyanamide

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noun
1. Also called: cyanogenamide (ˌsaɪənəʊˈdʒɛnəˌmaɪd , -mɪd)
a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
2. 
a salt or ester of cyanamide
3.  short for calcium cyanamide

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Cyanamide

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noun
1. 
a caustic, white, crystalline compound, H2N·CN, usually prepared by the reaction of carbon dioxide with calcium cyanamide in water and used to make other chemicals, as thiourea
: also cyˈanamid (saɪˈænəmɪd ; sīanˈəmid; saɪˈænəɪd ; sīanˈəid)
2. 
calcium cyanamide

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cyanamide

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n.
1. A deliquescent caustic crystalline compound, CH2N2, prepared by treating calcium cyanamide with sulfuric acid.
2. Calcium cyanamide.

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