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What is a dichromate?

What is a dichromate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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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Potassium dichromate is an oxidizer and therefore presents a fire hazard.
The breath sample is bubbled in one vial through a mixture of sulfuric acid, potassium dichromate, silver nitrate and water.
Potassium hydroxide would cause an orange coloured potassium dichromate solution to change to yellow.
Ethanol can be chemically oxidized using a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and sodium dichromate.
In all but one of the incidents, Ms Haynes avoided harm: the bright-orange potassium dichromate and the arsenic compound were easy to spot.
He had very bad luck with the permanganate bleach and recommends the dichromate bleach instead.

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