cyanamide
- n a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts)
- n a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds
- Germany needed French carbide-cyanamide for saltpeter, French bauxite for aluminum; France needed German iron and steel for emergency railroad tracks and barbed wire .
- But last week a medicinal variant of cyanamide was released in Canada for prescription sale, on the strength of researchers' reports that it is almost as potent as disulfiram and .