potassium ferricyanide: Meaning and Definition of

potas'sium ferricy'anide

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— Chem. Chem.
  1. a bright-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, KFe(CN), used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, as Prussian blue, and of paper, esp. blueprint paper. Also called
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