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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

By chlorination, i.e. forming the soluble gold chloride and then precipitating the metal; 4.

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

J. H. Schulze, a German physician, observed that light blackened chalk impregnated with nitrate of silver solution and gold chloride.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by John Werge

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