NOUN
- a cyanide compound that is prepared by the reaction of potassium cyanide with ferrous salts; commonly used by gardeners
How To Use yellow prussiate of potash In A Sentence
- “As to the proofs in gallate (or tannate) of iron, they can be transformed into Prussian blue in a solution of potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate of potash) slightly acidified by sulphuric acid.” Photographic Reproduction Processes
- Gmelin states that yellow prussiate of potash yields with a solution of oxalate of sesquioxide of cobalt a blue resembling Prussian blue -- that, in fact, there can be obtained a Prussian blue with a base of cobalt instead of iron. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
- It is a compound of iron and cyanogen, of varying composition, formed by adding yellow prussiate of potash to a persalt of iron, or by oxidizing the precipitate obtained from the prussiate and a protosalt. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists