Chem., used as the first element in certain names of compounds of sulphur with a cyano-compound, or of compounds of sulphocyanogen: see quots.
1841. Brande, Chem. (ed. 5), 572. Sulphocyanhydric Acid … is obtained by decomposing basic sulphocyanuret of lead by dilute sulphuric acid.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1227/1. Sulphocyanhydrate, term for a genus of sulphosalts resulting from the combination of cyanhydric sulphide with the sulphobases.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 509. The sulphocyanates of platinum form two series of double salts, called sulphocyanoplatinites and sulphocyanoplatinates. Ibid., 510. Sulphocyanoplatinic Acid.
