ferric oxide

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   a red oxide of iron

   Broaderoxide

   Narrowerrust

Questions about ferric oxide

What does ferric oxide mean?

ferric oxide means "a red oxide of iron".

Is ferric oxide a common word?

ferric oxide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.