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(inorganic chemistry) The chromium oxide, Cr2O3, manufactured from chromite and sometimes used as a pigment.
Thechromites maybe looked upon as salts of chromium sesquioxide with other basic oxides, the most important being chromite (q.v.).
When heated in a current of sulphuretted hydrogen, or carbon bisulphide, it yields a mixture of chromium sesquioxide and sulphide.
When heated with sulphur it yields chromium sesquioxide.
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