potassium ferricyanide

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noun Chemistry.

a bright-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K3Fe(CN)6, used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, as Prussian blue, and of paper, especially blueprint paper.

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Also called red prussiate of potash.

Words nearby potassium ferricyanide

potassium cobaltinitrite, potassium cyanide, potassium dichromate, potassium diphosphate, potassium feldspar, potassium ferricyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, potassium fluoride, potassium hydrogen tartrate, potassium hydroxide, potassium iodide

How to use potassium ferricyanide in a sentence

Wool is dyed by heating it in a solution containing potassium ferricyanide and sulphuric acid.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8|Various
Potassium ferricyanide costs about twenty cents per pound, and a pound is ample for a lifetime.
Bromide Printing and Enlarging|John A. Tennant
It decolorized an alkaline solution of potassium ferricyanide.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme
Dissolve the ounce of potassium ferricyanide in 10 ounces of water.
Bromide Printing and Enlarging|John A. Tennant

I have here in solution uranium nitrate, plus potassium ferricyanide acidified with acetic acid.
Spawn of the Comet|Harold Thompson Rich