The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate.
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Ochreous
Synonyms for "ochreous" (21 found)
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The white-walled drawing-room, dim in the ochreous twilight of drawn blinds, was hung with Richard's Italian water-colours and other pictorial mementos of the honeymoon[…]
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