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potassium dichromate

noun

Chemistry.
  1. 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

  1. 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
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Origin of potassium dichromate1

First recorded in 1880–85
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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.

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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.

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This is performed in a solution of potassium dichromate rendered alkaline with ammonia.

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She went online and ordered potassium dichromate , a corrosive chemical than can destroy human tissue.

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