potassium ferrocyanide

noun

: a tough yellow crystalline salt K₄Fe(CN)₆ made from the cyanogen compounds obtained as by-products in the carbonization of coal or directly by reaction of potassium cyanide with ferrous salts and used chiefly in making iron blue pigments

called also yellow prussiate of potash

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