What are the products when potassium cyanide reacts with hydrobromic acid? What type of reaction is this?

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anor277
Feb 8, 2017

An acid base reaction............

Explanation:

And it's also a reaction to avoid; at one stage I think they used the process to turn people off (i.e. execute them) in penitentiaries:

KC≡N(aq)+HCl(aq)→HC≡N(g)↑⏐+KCl(aq)

So which is the acid, and which is the base?

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