Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ferrocyanide"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ferrocyanide \Fer`ro*cy"a*nide\ (? or ?; 104), n. [Ferro- +
cyanide.] (Chem.)
One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron
and some other base.
{Potassium ferrocyanide} (Chem.), yellow prussiate of potash;
a tough, yellow, crystalline salt, {K4(CN)6Fe}, the
starting point in the manufacture of almost all cyanogen
compounds, and the basis of the ferric ferrocyanate,
prussian blue. It is obtained by strongly heating together
potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen,
as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron pots.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ferrocyanide
n : salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a
cyanide with iron sulphate
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