Editing Cyanide (section)

===Interstellar medium===
The [[cyanide radical]] <sup>•</sup>CN has been identified in [[interstellar space]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pieniazek |first=Piotr A. |author2=Bradforth, Stephen E. |author3=Krylov, Anna I. |title=Spectroscopy of the Cyano Radical in an Aqueous Environment |date=2005-12-07 |pages=4854–4865 |issue=14 |volume=110 |url=http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~krylov/pubs/pdf/jpca-110-4854.pdf |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A |pmid=16599455 |doi=10.1021/jp0545952 |bibcode=2006JPCA..110.4854P |access-date=2008-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911131555/http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~krylov/pubs/pdf/jpca-110-4854.pdf |archive-date=2008-09-11 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Cyanogen]], {{chem2|(CN)2}}, is used to measure the temperature of [[Molecular cloud|interstellar gas clouds]].<ref>{{cite journal |title = Interstellar Cyanogen and the Temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |author1=Roth, K. C. |author2=Meyer, D. M. |author3=Hawkins, I.|author3-link=Isabel Hawkins |journal = The Astrophysical Journal |year = 1993 |volume = 413 |issue = 2 |pages = L67–L71 |doi = 10.1086/186961 |bibcode = 1993ApJ...413L..67R |url = http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1993ApJ...413L..67R&amp;data_type=PDF_HIGH&amp;whole_paper=YES&amp;type=PRINTER&amp;filetype=.pdf}}</ref>