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potassium ferrocyanide

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a lemon-yellow, crystalline, water-soluble solid, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in casehardening alloys having an iron base and in dyeing wool and silk.


potassium ferrocyanide

noun

  1. a yellow soluble crystalline compound used in case-hardening steel and making dyes and pigments. Formula: K 4 Fe(CN) 6 Also calledpotassium hexacyanoferrate (II)yellow prussiate of potash
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White Gunpowder: a mixture of potassium chlorate, potassium ferrocyanide, and sugar.

Titrate the boiling solution with the sodium phosphate till it ceases to give a brown colouration with potassium ferrocyanide.

They are soluble in water and give characteristic precipitates with platinic and auric chlorides, and with potassium ferrocyanide.

The following do not precipitate:—Mercuric cyanide and potassium ferrocyanide solutions.

Potassium ferrocyanide gives a precipitate even in very dilute solution.

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