potassium ferricyanide

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a bright-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 , used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, as Prussian blue, and of paper, especially blueprint paper.

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Wool is dyed by heating it in a solution containing potassium ferricyanide and sulphuric acid.

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Potassium ferricyanide costs about twenty cents per pound, and a pound is ample for a lifetime.

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It decolorized an alkaline solution of potassium ferricyanide.

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Dissolve the ounce of potassium ferricyanide in 10 ounces of water.

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I have here in solution uranium nitrate, plus potassium ferricyanide acidified with acetic acid.

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