CHROMATE
chromate
Noun
- any salt of chromic acid; in solution the yellow chromate anion (CrO42-) is in equilibrium with the orange dichromate anion (Cr2O72-), the relative amount of each ion depending on the pH; they are both very powerful oxidizing agents
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