noun
A highly toxic chemical compound used in industrial processes such as gold extraction and electroplating. The term is technical and primarily encountered in chemistry contexts.
シアン化カリウムは猛毒なので、取り扱いに注意が必要です。
Potassium cyanide is highly toxic, so careful handling is required.
青酸カリ is a common abbreviation for シアン化カリウム, often used in news reports and everyday references to the poison. シアン化カリウム is the formal chemical name.
From シアン (cyan) + 化 (-ka, '-ization') + カリウム (potassium), a direct calque of the English 'potassium cyanide'.