silver cyanide

noun

: a poisonous compound AgCN or Ag_x(CN)_x that is obtained as a white curdy precipitate when a soluble cyanide is added to aqueous solutions of a silver salt and that readily forms complex cyanides (such as potassium argentocyanide KAg(CN)₂) used in silver plating

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