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n. - A colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic.

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  • The memory of the orange cylinder of cyclopropane had faded.
  • Because it wasn't some old guy that gassed us with that cyclopropane.
  • Imploring for release, he half said, half sobbed, desperately, 'I got the cyclopropane gas for Rose ...
  • A lethal amount of insulin ... a syringeful of 'goodbye' threat, a cylinder of cyclopropane gas, a prelude to any sort of injected extinction.
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