Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A compound containing the divalent negative ion, Cr2O7, usually having a characteristic orange-red color. Also called bichromate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as bichromate.
Wiktionary
- n. 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also
bichromate .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid
Examples
“She went online and ordered potassium dichromate, a corrosive chemical than can destroy human tissue.”
The Washington Post: Supreme Court hears soap opera story of interest to the tea party
“I do remember, however, sneaking into the chemistry supply area in high school to get ammonium dichromate to make flaming "volcanoes," so maybe I do qualify.”
“The hearings revealed that troops from Indiana, Oregon, South Carolina, and West Virginia were exposed to sodium dichromate, a known and highly potent carcinogen at the Qarmat Ali water treatment facility in Iraq.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: Qarmat Ali AND KBR, Redux
“It also confirms that the Army's assessment of the health risks associated with exposure to sodium dichromate for soldiers at Qarmat Ali are not very reliable.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: Qarmat Ali AND KBR, Redux
“Pyrotechnics were naturally of great interest: I made and ignited gunpowder, ammonium dichromate volcanoes, and even a spectacular thermite reaction with powdered aluminum and chromium oxide.”
“Surveillance cameras captured Ms. Bond stealing an envelope from Ms. Haynes's mailbox and stuffing potassium dichromate in her car's muffler.”
“The new owners from the rich coastal province of Zhejiang have invested in new equipment and are trying to shift production towards cleaner, high-end nutritional supplements and feed additives, but their website still lists sodium dichromate?”
The Guardian: China's 'cancer villages' reveal dark side of economic boom
“I have just received a letter from the inspector general at the Pentagon, who is looking into one of the issues of the last hearings -- the issue of soldiers and contractors who were exposed to sodium dichromate, a chemical that was the subject of the movie ` ` Erin Brockovich, '' soldiers who were exposed and not told they were exposed to that deadly carcinogen and some of whom have already died.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: Miles to Go Before the PMC Industry Rests
“I started by talking about the issue of sodium dichromate.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: Miles to Go Before the PMC Industry Rests
“Virtually all chromium ore is processed via hexavalent chromium, specifically the salt sodium dichromate..”
Lists
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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