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Chro"mic (?), a. (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the
compounds of chromium in which it has its higher
valence.

Chromic acid, an acid,
H₂CrO₄, analogous to sulphuric acid, not
readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts,
many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red,
etc. -- Chromic anhydride, a brilliant
red crystalline substance, CrO₃, regarded as the
anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful
oxidizers known.

Chro"mid (?), n. [Gr. &?; a kind of
fish.] (Zoöl.) One of the Chromidæ,
a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of
America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the
bulti of the Nile.

||Chro`mi*dro"sis (?), n.


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