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potassium dichromate
noun
- an orange-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, K 2 Cr 2 O 7 , used chiefly in dyeing, photography, and as a laboratory reagent.
potassium dichromate
noun
- an orange-red crystalline soluble solid substance that is a good oxidizing agent and is used in making chrome pigments and as a bleaching agent. Formula: K 2 Cr 2 O 7
Word History and Origins
Origin of potassium dichromate1
Example Sentences
The contamination was first detected more than a decade ago, and officials traced it to potassium dichromate used to prevent corrosion inside cooling towers at Los Alamos lab's power plant.
Vowing revenge, Bond, a laboratory technician, stole the chemical 10-chloro-10H phenoxarsine from the company where she worked and purchased potassium dichromate on Amazon.com.
Perkin isolated a derivative called allyl-toluidine, then tried to transform it into quinine by oxidizing it in a mixture with potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid.
This is performed in a solution of potassium dichromate rendered alkaline with ammonia.
She went online and ordered potassium dichromate , a corrosive chemical than can destroy human tissue.
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