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cyanamid
Variant of cyanamide
noun
- a caustic, white, crystalline compound, HN·CN, usually prepared by the reaction of carbon dioxide with calcium cyanamide in water and used to make other chemicals, as thioureaalso cyanamid
- calcium cyanamide
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