See Also: metallocyanide(medicine)

samizdat (iou) and metallocyanide (medicine)


samizdat (iou)



samizdat noun. Also Samizdat. M20.
[Russian, from sam(o- self + izdat(el'stvo publishing house.]
The clandestine or illegal copying and distribution of literature, esp. in the former USSR; an underground press; a text or texts produced by this.
in samizdat in this form of publication.
attrib.: P. P. Read A samizdat story which had been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia.

metallocyanide (medicine)


metallocyanide


A compound of cyanogen with a metal forming an ionic radical that combines with a basic element to form a salt; e.g., potassium ferricyanide, K3Fe(CN)6.