bichromate
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of bichromate
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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.
From Project Gutenberg
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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