Ferrocyanide blue

Ferrocyanide blue occurs in various shades known as Prussian blue, Chinese blue, muon blue, bronze blue, Antwerp blue, and Turnbull s blue. These names have lost much of their original differentiation the more general term iron blues is preferred. 

These pigments are manufactured by treating ferrous sulfate (FeS04) solutions (sometimes in the presence of ammonium sulfate) with sodium ferrocyanide, giving a white ferrous ferrocyanide, which is then oxidized to ferric ferrocyanide, Fe4[Fe(CN)6], or to Fe(NH4)[Tc(CN)6 by different reagents such as potassium chlorate, bleaching powder, and potassium dichromate. The colloidal pigment is washed and allowed to settle to enhance separation, since filtration of the colloidal solid is difficult. 

Fertilizers provide the primary nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) for vegetation and are manufactured by a variety of processes (Fig. 1) and from a variety of raw materials (Fig. 2). The usual sources of nitrogen are ammonia, ammonium nitrate, urea, and ammonium sulfate. Phosphorus is obtained from phosphoric acid or phosphate rock and potassium is available from mined potassium chloride or potassium sulfate or it is obtained from brine. 

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Prussian Blue. An iron-ferrocyanide blue pigment. 

Ferric chloride solution is then added to com ert the sodium ferrocyanide to the deep blue ferric ferrocyanide (or Prussian Blue), dilute sulphuric acid being also added to dissolve any ferrous and ferric hydroxides present in the other-... 

Upon boiling the alkaline ferrous salt solution, some ferric ions are inevitably produced by the action of the air upon the addition of dilute siilphurio acid, thus dissolving the ferrous and ferric hydroxides, the ferrocyanides reacts with the ferric salt producing ferric ferrocyanide (Prussian blue) ... 

Cyanide iron blues can be prepared by several methods. The most common one is the indirect, two-step process. In the first step, a white precipitate (Berlin white), is produced by the reaction of sodium, potassium, or ammonium ferrocyanide and ferrous sulfate ... 

Water-soluble crystal modifiers such as yellow pmssiate of soda (YPS) (sodium ferrocyanide decahydrate) or ferric ammonium citrate may also be added to some types of salt as anticaking agents. Both are approved by the U.S. Food and Dmg Administration for use in food-grade salt. YPS and Pmssian Blue (ferric ferrocyanide), are most commonly added to rock salt used for wintertime highway deicing. Concentrations of YPS and Pmssian Blue in deicing salt vary, typically in the range of 20—100 ppm. 

Ferric ammonium ferrocyanide—The blue pigment obtained by oxidising under acidic conditions with sodium dichromate the acid-digested precipitate resulting from mixing solutions of ferrous sulfate and sodium ferrocyanide ia the presence of ammonium sulfate. The oxidized product is filtered, washed, and dried. The pigment consists principally of ferric ammonium ferrocyanide with small amounts of ferric ferrocyanide and ferric sodium ferrocyanide. 

Ferric ferrocyanide—Cl Pigment Blue 27, Cl No. 77510. The color additive ferric ferrocyanide is a ferric hexacyanoferrate is a pigment characterized by the stmctural formula Fe4[Fe(CN)g]2ArH20, which may contain small amounts of ferric sodium ferrocyanide and ferric potassium ferrocyanide. ... 

If the solution is acidified and aUtde ferric sulfate added, ferric ferrocyanide [14038-43-8], Fe4[Fe(CN)g]2, is produced. This salt has a characteristic deep blue color, and the reaction may be used to test for the cyanide. 

Sodium ferrocyanide (IOH2O) [13601-19-9] M 484.1, m 50-80 (ioses lOHjO), 435 (dec), d 1.46, pK 2.57, pK4 4.35 (for ferrocyanide). Crystd from hot water (0.7mL/g), until free of ferricyanide as shown by absence of Prussian Blue formation with ferrous sulfate soln. 

Ferrifeiro-cyanid, n. ferric ferrocyanide (Prussian blue), -jodid, n. ferroeoferric iodide, -oxyd, n. ferroeoferric oxide, iron(II,III) oxide. 

Ferrocyan, n. ferrocyanogen. -eisen, n. ferric ferrocyanide (Prussian blue). 

Prussian blue (PB ferric ferrocyanide, or iron(III) hexacyanoferrate(II)) was first made by Diesbach in Berlin in 1704.88 It is extensively used as a pigment in the formulation of paints, lacquers, and printing inks.89,90 Since the first report91 in 1978 of the electrochemistry of PB films, numerous studies concerning the electrochemistry of PB and related analogs have been made,92 with proposed applications in electrochromism1 and electrochemical sensing and catalysis 93... 

The fact that Prussian blue is indeed ferric ferrocyanide (Fe4in[Fen(CN)6]3) with iron(III) atom coordinated to nitrogen and iron(II) atom coordinated to carbon has been established by spectroscopic investigations [4], Prussian blue can be synthesized chemically by the mixing of ferric (ferrous) and hexacyanoferrate ions with different oxidation state of iron atoms either Fe3+ + [Fen(CN)6]4 or Fe2+ + [Fem(CN)6]3. After mixing, an immediate formation of the dark blue colloid is observed. However, the mixed solutions of ferric (ferrous) and hexacyanoferrate ions with the same oxidation state of iron atoms are apparently stable. 

The electrochemical rate constants for hydrogen peroxide reduction have been found to be dependent on the amount of Prussian blue deposited, confirming that H202 penetrates the films, and the inner layers of the polycrystal take part in the catalysis. For 4-6 nmol cm 2 of Prussian blue the electrochemical rate constant exceeds 0.01cm s-1 [12], which corresponds to the bi-molecular rate constant of kcat = 3 X 103 L mol 1s 1 [114], The rate constant of hydrogen peroxide reduction by ferrocyanide catalyzed by enzyme peroxidase was 2 X 104 L mol 1 s 1 [116]. Thus, the activity of the natural enzyme peroxidase is of a similar order of magnitude as the catalytic activity of our Prussian blue-based electrocatalyst. Due to the high catalytic activity and selectivity, which are comparable with biocatalysis, we were able to denote the specially deposited Prussian blue as an artificial peroxidase [114, 117]. 

Prussian blue (inorgchem) Fe4 Fe(CN)6 3 Ferric ferrocyanide, used as a blue pigment and in the removal of hydrogen sulfide from gases. prash an blu j prussic acid See hydrocyanic acid. pras ik as ad ... 

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