thiocyanate
- noun
- /ˌθaɪoʊˈsaɪəˌneɪt/
- Specialized
:
tiocianato
- Potassium thiocyanate is often used in laboratories to study chemical reactions.
Examples
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Many of them produce toxic or hazardous side effects, but she has had success with ethylene diamine used in combination with thiocyanate salts.
Academic text (2005) -
Ferric Thiocyanate (FTC) Assay:
Academic text (2014) -
So here's a crystal of thiocyanate and we can see that this turns it red too.
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So what's happening here is the potassium thiocyanate reacts with the ferric chloride to make this dark red iron thiocyanate.
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Total RNA was extracted by the guanidinium thiocyanate/cesium chloride method (n11) from the blood samples and from about 10 (n7) cells from the cultured lines.
Academic text (1992) -
In agriculture, ammonium thiocyanate serves as a key component in certain fertilizers.
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The production of thiocyanate involves a reaction between sulfur and alkaline cyanides.
Surface Forms
Morphology
thiocyanate = cyanate (semi-transparent) = thio + cyan + ate
The addition of 'thio-' to 'cyanate' indicates a sulfur component, but the specific chemical nature may not be immediately clear to all learners.
Etymology
Thiocyanate combines thio- meaning 'sulfur' and cyanate which is related to cyan and cyanide, words that point to a cyan (blue) chemical group, so a thiocyanate is a chemical salt or compound that contains sulfur plus a cyanide-like part.
