ammonium dichromate

noun

: a crystalline compound (NH₄)₂Cr₂O₇ used as a coloring agent in pyrotechnics and formerly in photographic development to enhance certain colors

called also ammonium bichromate

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above

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