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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

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 Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks

Mr. Daintree, of the Victorian Geological Survey, many years ago discovered accidentally that gold chloride would deposit its metal on a metallic base in the presence of any organic substance.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson

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