Chemistry A-Level
Colour change of acidified dichromate(VI)
What Colour change of acidified dichromate(VI) means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Acidified dichromate(VI) is an orange oxidising agent that is reduced to green chromium(III) ions when it oxidises a primary or secondary alcohol or an aldehyde.
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