barium chromate

noun

Chemistry.

a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment barium yellow.

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Normal chromates on the addition of silver nitrate give a red precipitate of silver chromate, easily soluble in ammonia, and with barium chloride a yellow precipitate of barium chromate, insoluble in acetic acid.