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A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.

FERRICYANIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide. Ferricyanic acid , a brown crystalline substance, H6 12Fe2, obtained from potassium ferricyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferricyanides; -- called also hydro-ferricyanic acid, hydrogen
FERRICYANIDE
One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base. Potassium ferricyanide , red prussiate of potash; a dark, red, crystalline salt, K6 12Fe2, consisting of the double cyanide of potassium and ferric iron. From it is
HYDROFERRICYANIC
Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic.