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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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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

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

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

Examine auriferous quartz, gold chloride, yellow and ruby glass colored with gold.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

The gold chloride of commerce, which is used in photography, is really a hydrochloride, chlorauric or aurichloric acid, HAuCl4�3H2O, and is obtained in long yellow needles by crystallizing the acid solution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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