Definition of "chromous" []

• Of, relating to, or containing chromium, especially with valence 2. (adjective)

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• "He was soon to leave biology for the field of inorganic chemistry, where his early work was on the oxides of iron-group metals and chromium and a study of the chromous salts."
• "-- The author makes use of a solution of chromous chloride, which he prepares as follows:"
• "When the current of gas has been passed in for some time, the hydrochloric acid is let enter, which dissolves the chromous acetate, and thus, in the absence of air, produces a solution of blue chromous chloride."