platinic chloride

noun

, Chemistry.

First recorded in 1865–70

It is dissolved by warm aqua regia, forming a solution of "platinic chloride," H2PtCl6.

Moisten with a few drops of platinic chloride solution without breaking up the paste by stirring.

Solutions are not precipitated by tartaric acid nor by platinic chloride.

Like caesium, it is precipitated with platinic chloride, and in the ordinary course of work would be weighed as potassium.

It is separated from potassium by fractional precipitation with platinic chloride.

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