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potassium ferricyanide

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a bright-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 , used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, as Prussian blue, and of paper, especially blueprint paper.


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Wool is dyed by heating it in a solution containing potassium ferricyanide and sulphuric acid.

Potassium ferricyanide costs about twenty cents per pound, and a pound is ample for a lifetime.

It decolorized an alkaline solution of potassium ferricyanide.

Dissolve the ounce of potassium ferricyanide in 10 ounces of water.

I have here in solution uranium nitrate, plus potassium ferricyanide acidified with acetic acid.

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