prussiate

English

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Noun

prussiate (plural prussiates)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) A ferricyanide, ferrocyanide or cyanide.
   • 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:

     The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.

Derived terms

• ferroprussiate

Anagrams

• Pusateris, epitarsus, upraisest

French

Noun

prussiate f (plural prussiates)

1. prussiate

Further reading

• “prussiate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.