Appearance: Solid

Potassium cyanide properties
Potassium cyanide is highly toxic.
Potassium cyanide is a moisture absorber.
Potassium cyanide is highly soluble in water.
Consumption of potassium cyanide
Potassium cyanide is used in gold mines to extract gold.
KCN and NaCN are widely used in organic synthesis to produce nitriles and carboxylic acids.
Potassium cyanide is used as a photographic stabilizer in the wet plate colloid process .
Used in the jewelry industry to sand potassium cyanide.