A chemical compound containing two cyanide groups or two cyano- units bonded together.
From prefix 'di-' (two) + 'cyan' (cyanide). The term was coined in chemistry to describe molecules with paired cyanide functional groups, a structural feature important in organic synthesis.
Cyanide sounds scary, but dicyans in controlled chemistry labs help researchers build complex medicines and dyes—context and control are everything in chemistry!
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