Kyanising, a method of preserving ships from Dry Rot (q.v.), by injecting into the pores of the wood a solution of corrosive sublimate, was invented by John H. Kyan (born at Dublin, 1774; died in New York, 1850).
Kyanising
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 465
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