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Ferrocyanide

Ferrocyanide Meaning & Definition
Ferrocyanide Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ferrocyanide?

[n] salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate

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Ferrocyanide In Webster's Dictionary

\Fer`ro*cy"a*nide\ (? or ?; 104), n. [Ferro- + cyanide.] (Chem.) One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base. {Potassium ferrocyanide} (Chem.), yellow prussiate of potash; a tough, yellow, crystalline salt, {K4(CN)6Fe}, the starting point in the manufacture of almost all cyanogen compounds, and the basis of the ferric ferrocyanate, prussian blue. It is obtained by strongly heating together potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen, as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron pots.

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