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gold chloride

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noun

  1. a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.


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Take a solution of gold chloride, a compound toxic to most forms of life.

From Nature Mar. 13, 2013

Their installation, called The Great Work of the Metal Lover, features C. metallidurans bacteria producing 24-carat gold from a solution of gold chloride in front of a live audience.

From Nature Mar. 13, 2013

Printed on softly highlighted gold chloride paper, the photographs showed with equal clarity Paris' elegant mansions and lean-to shanties, her fashionably dressed strollers and her ragpickers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gold is also refined by a similar process, the electrolyte used consisting of gold chloride solution containing free hydrochloric acid.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Now the gold is dissolved by means of chlorine gas, with which it unites in a compound called gold chloride.

From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)

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