bichromate

[bahy-kroh-meyt]

noun

Chemistry.

1. dichromate.

bichromate

/ -mɪt, baɪˈkrəʊˌmeɪt /

noun

1. another name for dichromate

Word History and Origins

Origin of bichromate¹

First recorded in 1850–55; bi- ¹ + chromate

Example Sentences

For it, Mr. Gowin departed from his usual silver gelatin to make a rough-surfaced gum bichromate print, creating a field of mottled blues and starlike white dots on which swirling outlines suggest battling constellations.

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A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassfum bichromate; Ð called also dichromate.

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In extensive outbreaks I have had the best results with the administration thrice daily of carbolic acid, nitro-muriatic acid, or bichromate of potassium, and hypodermically of iodide of potassium and sulphate of quinia.

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From this we learn that before the potassium bichromate enters into action in the battery, it is resolved into chromic acid.

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Other experimenters played variations on Mr. Ponton’s bichromate scale, and amongst the performers were M. E. Becquerel, of France, and our own distinguished countryman, Mr. Robert Hunt.

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