Cyanide vs Cyan - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cyanide and cyan

is that cyanide is while cyan is cyan (colour).

(wikipedia cyanide)

(chemistry, countable) Any compound containing the -C?N radical or the C?N^-1 anion.

(uncountable) potassium cyanide - a water soluble poison

(uncountable) hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas - a poisonous gas

* ferricyanide * ferrocyanide

(wikipedia cyan)

(en-noun)

A colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.

(en adjective)

Of the colour cyan.