stannic chloride

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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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stannic chloride

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

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.

Aqua regia dissolves tin readily, forming stannic chloride, and in this solution the metal is detected by precipitation with sulphuretted hydrogen, which gives a yellow precipitate.

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

By treating a solution of stannous chloride with aqua regia, stannic chloride is formed: SnCl2 + 2Cl = SnCl4.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William

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