benzonitrile
noun
ben·zo·ni·trile
| \ ¦ben-(ˌ)zō-¦nī-trəl\
plural -s
Definition of benzonitrile
: a colorless toxic oily compound C6H5CN of almond-oil odor made by fusing a mixture of sodium cyanide and sodium benzenesulfonate and in other ways and used chiefly as a solvent for synthetic resins
— called also cyanobenzene, phenyl cyanide
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