potassium ferrocyanide

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a lemon-yellow, crystalline, water-soluble solid, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in casehardening alloys having an iron base and in dyeing wool and silk.

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potassium ferrocyanide British  

noun

1. Also called: potassium hexacyanoferrate (II).   yellow prussiate of potash.  a yellow soluble crystalline compound used in case-hardening steel and making dyes and pigments. Formula: K 4 Fe(CN) 6

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potassium ferrocyanide

He extensively used potassium ferrocyanide to bleach detail into dark areas.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2018

He admonished them for sending their spies to a foreign country equipped with “soap made of potassium ferrocyanide or toilet water that contains lead acetate.”

From Scientific American ● Apr. 5, 2014

Upon further investigation, however, authorities learned that the chemical appeared to be potassium ferrocyanide, which is not lethal when diluted in water.

From Time Magazine Archive

Iron.—50 c.c. of the solution should not immediately be coloured blue by 0·5 c.c. of potassium ferrocyanide solution.

From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Albert Shonk

If the gelatine has been treated with a drop of potassium ferrocyanide solution instead of salicylate of sodium, a few drops of FeSO4 will give a blue pattern.

From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc