stannic chloride

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.

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Example Sentences

Stannic oxide when ignited with chlorides is more or less completely converted into stannic chloride, which volatilises.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Since some stannic chloride will have been lost in the evaporation, a low result may be expected.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Double salts of cerous chloride with stannic chloride, mercuric chloride, and platinic chloride are also known.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

The latter object is accomplished by oxidation to stannic chloride by means of mercuric chloride added in excess, as the mercuric salts have no effect upon ferrous iron or the bichromate.

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.

What are the products of hydrolysis when stannic chloride is used as a mordant?

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William