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nounprussiate (plural prussiates)
plural prussiates
- obsoletechemistryA ferricyanide, ferrocyanide or cyanide.
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.
1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696
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