a highly toxic, flammable, colorless liquid, CH3NCO, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pesticides: in 1984, the accidental release of a cloud of this gas in Bhopal, India, killed more than 1700 people and injured over 200,000
Examples of 'methyl isocyanate' in a sentence
methyl isocyanate
As the cloud of methyl isocyanate smothered the city, cramped homes had turned into gas chambers.