He discovered a formula that can be made at home from simple and safe household ingredients which does the job quite nicely. A fair warning however, standard ferric chloride disposal procedures ...

In this experiment you synthesized an iron complex from the reaction of ferric chloride (FeCl 3) with potassium oxalate ... the properties of this complex and suggest a charge balanced formula for the ...

Compounds with a phenol group will form a blue, violet, purple, green, or red-brown color upon addition of aqueous ferric chloride. This reaction can be used as a test for phenol groups. Mix several ...