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chromic oxide

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noun

  1. a bright-green crystalline powder, Cr 2 O 3 , insoluble in water: used in metallurgy and as the pigment chrome green.


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Organic acids, ferrous oxide, chromic oxide, ammonium salts, etc., prevent the formation of peroxide and the red color produced by permanganic acid.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

Toning and Intensifying.—The carbon proofs can be toned and at the same time intensified by reagents acting with chromic oxide.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

It is this hydrated chromic oxide in the fibre that yields with the Hæmatein of the logwood your logwood black dye.

From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Shonk, Albert

Chrome iron ore, however, and ignited chromic oxide are insoluble; and the former presents considerable difficulty on attempting to open up by the usual methods.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

In the higher commercial grades of chrome ore the percentage of chromic oxide is 45 to 55 per cent, but under war conditions ore as low as 30 per cent in Cr2O3 was mined.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)

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