Bichromates Sentence Examples

These salts generally resemble the bichromates; they are yellow in colour, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, and decomposed by heat.

Chromic acid and its salts, the chromates and bichromates, can be detected by the violet coloration which they give on addition of hydrogen peroxide to their dilute acid solution, or by the fact that on distillation with concentrated sulphuric acid and an alkaline chloride, the red vapours of chromium oxychloride are produced.

The chromates of sodium, potassium and ammonium, as well as the bichromates of potassium and ammonium, were found to give the same absorption spectrum.

In addition to these normal salts, others exist, namely bichromates, trichromates, &c., which may be regarded as combinations of one molecular proportion of the normal salt with one or more molecular proportions of chromium trioxide.

By the addition of mineral acids, they are converted rapidly into bichromates.

The bichromates are usually of a red or reddishbrown colour, those of the alkali metals being readily soluble in water.

The trichromates are obtained by the addition of nitric acid (of specific gravity about 1.2) to solutions of the bichromates.

In the process of bleaching by means of chlorine either bleaching powder or bichromates and hydrochloric acid are used.