Thanks for the comment on the variety of oxidant sources that may be used to destroy the week CN bond, along with the comments about Organic P and N.  I had a case for metal cleaning where a chelated CN was present: it took me months to realize that the problem was not CN but the chelated materials present.  I also found the strange case that I was getting some interference the field methods use to determine the amount of CN present to allow discharge.  As always, sometimes we have to dig a little deeper into the literature to find the real problem.

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Thanks for the comment on the variety of oxidant sources that may be used to destroy the week CN bond, along with the comments about Organic P and N.  I had a case for metal cleaning where a chelated CN was present: it took me months to realize that the problem was not CN but the chelated materials present.  I also found the strange case that I was getting some interference the field methods use to determine the amount of CN present to allow discharge.  As always, sometimes we have to dig a little deeper into the literature to find the real problem.   

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 you are so write.I certainly sure that the concentrae waste contains thiocyanats that are determine as cyanide,but very dificult to approve it    

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