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What is a dichromate?

What is a dichromate? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (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
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This can be carried out using chemical oxidation agents such as hydrogen peroxide, ozone, or potassium dichromate.
The equilibrium is disturbed once again, and the chromate ions react with the hydrogen ions to form dichromate ions.
Potassium hydroxide would cause an orange coloured potassium dichromate solution to change to yellow.
In this technique nervous tissue is fixed with potassium dichromate and then suffused with silver nitrate.
Ethanol can be chemically oxidized using a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and sodium dichromate.
Common oxidants include the halogens, oxygen, ozone, potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, nitric acid, and concentrated sulfuric acid.

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