Definition of Dichromate

1. Noun. A salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid.

Exact synonyms: Bichromate
Generic synonyms: Salt

Definition of Dichromate

1. n. A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

Definition of Dichromate

1. Noun. (chemistry) any salt of dichromic acid; in solution the orange dichromate anion (Cr2O72-) is in equilibrium with the yellow chromate anion (CrO42-), the relative amount of each ion depending on the pH; they are both very powerful oxidizing agents ¹

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Definition of Dichromate

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Medical Definition of Dichromate

1. A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base. Synonym: bichromate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichromate

dichotomous key
dichotomous keys
dichotomously
dichotomousness
dichotomy
dichroic
dichroiscope
dichroiscopes
dichroism
dichroisms
dichroite
dichroites
dichromacy
dichromasy
dichromat
dichromate (current term)
dichromates
dichromatically
dichromatism
dichromatisms
dichromatopsia
dichromats
dichromia
dichromic
dichromic acid
dichromism
dichromium
dichromophil

Literary usage of Dichromate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Metallurgical Analysis by Dana James Demorest, Nathaniel Wright Lord (1916)
"Otherwise metallic mercury may be formed as a gray precipitate which will act on the dichromate and cause false results. Thus, SnCl2+HgCl2 = SnCl4+Hg. This ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"It is then heated to about 70° C. and the standard dichromate added, ... An excess of potassium dichromate maybe added, the precipitate filtered off, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The mass is washed free from potassium carbonate and re-ignited. dichromate with its own weight of ammonium chloride and a small quantity of sodium ..."

4. An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1902)
"The red color indicates the presence of the dichromate. When a solution of potassium dichromate is treated with potassium hydroxide until the color becomes ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The general uses and oxidising properties, however, described under potassium dichromate, also apply to the normal chromate. Potassium dichromate, generally ..."

6. Hydrates in Aqueous Solution: Evidence for the Existence of Hydrates in by Harry Clary Jones, Frederick Hutton Getman, Harry Preston Bassett, Leroy McMaster, Horace Scudder Uhler (1907)
"SODIUM dichromate. Sodium dichromate was quite readily soluble in water at ordinary temperatures, but at the freezing-points the solubility was greatly ..."

7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1897)
"In order to apply the principle of the chromic acid method of Baumann to the estimation of iron, an excess of dichromate solution was employed in all of the ..."

8. A Text-book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Gravimetric, Electrolytic by John Charles Olsen (1904)
"To avoid loss of ferrous iron, nearly all of the calculated amount of the dichromate solution should be added to the iron solution before a test is made. ..."

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