ammonium thiocyanate

noun

: a colorless crystalline salt NH₄SCN made by reaction of ammonia and carbon disulfide and used chiefly in textile printing, as a rust inhibitor, and as a weed killer and defoliant

Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined above

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