platinocyanide
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of platinocyanide
1835–45; platinocyan(ic acid) + -ide ( def. )
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The screen of barium platinocyanide is, therefore, another means for revealing the unknown world.
From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe
A piece of barium platinocyanide paper lay on the bench there.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles
The screens used for viewing the luminous effects produced by the X-rays are coated with very fine crystals of barium platinocyanide.
From Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson
With mercurous nitrate, the platinocyanide of potassium forms a thick smalt blue, and the platinidcyanide a dark blue precipitate.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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