selenic acid

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.

selenic acid

noun

1. a colourless crystalline soluble strong dibasic acid analogous to sulphuric acid. Formula: H 2 SeO 4

Word History and Origins

Origin of selenic acid¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

When heated in a tube, oxide of selenium of a carmine red rises along with selenic acid, white and deliquescent.

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Selenic acid has a powerful attraction for water, and evolves much heat when mixed with it.

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Sulphurous acid has no action on selenic acid, but instantly decomposes the selenious acid.

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A solution containing selenic acid is easily decomposed, by first boiling it with muriatic acid, and then adding sulphurous acid.

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It is attacked only by boiling selenic acid which, as you must know, dissolves platinum readily.

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