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selenic acid
noun
- a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
selenic acid
noun
- a colourless crystalline soluble strong dibasic acid analogous to sulphuric acid. Formula: H 2 SeO 4
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Word History and Origins
Origin of selenic acid1
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Example Sentences
When heated in a tube, oxide of selenium of a carmine red rises along with selenic acid, white and deliquescent.
Selenic acid has a powerful attraction for water, and evolves much heat when mixed with it.
Sulphurous acid has no action on selenic acid, but instantly decomposes the selenious acid.
A solution containing selenic acid is easily decomposed, by first boiling it with muriatic acid, and then adding sulphurous acid.
It is attacked only by boiling selenic acid which, as you must know, dissolves platinum readily.
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