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FERRICYANIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ferricyanide mean?
• FERRICYANIDE (noun)
The noun FERRICYANIDE has 1 sense:
1. salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide
Familiarity information: FERRICYANIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("ferricyanide" is a kind of...):
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
Context examples
This protein plays a role in the reduction of cytochrome c, doxorubicin, potassium ferricyanide and menadione.
(NADPH-Dependent Diflavin Oxidoreductase 1, NCI Thesaurus)
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