Ferric
['ferɪk]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid.
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
adj. pertaining to or obtained from iron: noting an acid compounded of iron and oxygen.—ns. Ferr′ate a salt formed by the union of ferric acid with a base; Ferrocyanogen (fer-o-sī-an′ō-jen) a compound radical supposed by chemists to exist in ferrocyanic acid and the ferrocyanides the chief of which is potassium ferrocyanide yielding Prussian blue; Ferr′otype a photographic process in which the negative was developed by a saturated solution of protosulphate of iron.
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Examples
- The Edison dynamo, with its large masses of iron, was a vivid contrast to the then existing types with their meagre quantities of the ferric element. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For example, with alum and oxalic acid as a mordant and logwood as a dye, blue is obtained; but with a mordant of ferric sulphate and a dye of logwood, blacks and grays result. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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