cyanidation
noun
cyanidation is a noun meaning “The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-A-N-I-D-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyanidation is cyanidations.
What does cyanidation mean?
noun
- 1
The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cyanidation
- cyanidations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyanidation?
Cyanidation appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cyanidation come from?
From cyanide + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).