ferric oxide

Noun

Meaning

a red oxide of iron

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Examples

Flexible magnets are composed of a high- coercivity ferromagnetic compound (usually ferric oxide ) mixed with a plastic binder. citation This is extruded as a sheet and passed over a line of powerful cylindrical permanent magnets. Source: Internet

For such iron-rich rocks to be deposited there would have to be anoxia in the ocean, so that much dissolved iron (as ferrous oxide ) could accumulate before it met an oxidant that would precipitate it as ferric oxide. Source: Internet

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