stannic chloride

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noun Chemistry.

a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl4, 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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Also called tin chloride, tin tetrachloride.

Words nearby stannic chloride

Stannaries, stannary, stannate, stannic, stannic acid, stannic chloride, stannic oxide, stannic sulfide, stannic sulphide, stanniferous, stannite

How to use stannic chloride in a sentence

Stannic oxide when ignited with chlorides is more or less completely converted into stannic chloride, which volatilises.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
Since some stannic chloride will have been lost in the evaporation, a low result may be expected.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
Double salts of cerous chloride with stannic chloride, mercuric chloride, and platinic chloride are also known.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7|Various
By adding hydrate of potassium or an alkaline carbonate to a solution of stannic chloride.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II|Arnold Cooley

What are the products of hydrolysis when stannic chloride is used as a mordant?
An Elementary Study of Chemistry|William McPherson