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potassium ferricyanide
noun
Definition of potassium ferricyanide
: a red crystalline salt K3Fe(CN)6 made by oxidizing potassium ferrocyanide with chlorine and used chiefly as a photographic bleach and in coating blueprint paper —called also red prussiate of potash
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