Zinc cyanide is also produced as a byproduct of certain gold extraction methods.

Zinc cyanide is the inorganic compound with the formula Zn(CN).

The process involves the chemical reagent zinc cyanide, which Davila said "is not discharged into rivers because it is reused at the same site."

Like zinc cyanide, cadmium cyanide is fairly soluble in water, which is unusual for metal cyanides.

The reaction can be simplified by replacing the HCN/AlCl combination with zinc cyanide.

This method synthetizes aromatic aldehydes using hydrogen chloride and hydrogen cyanide (or another metallic cyanide as such zinc cyanide) in the presence of Lewis acid catalysts:

One Case, and the Aftermath As others reconstructed it, Jeff Link, 25, had been cleaning sludge from a zinc cyanide tank when a reaction with muriatic acid produced a deadly gas.