Compounds+with+Iron

= = Iron is a element highly submitted to making compounds with other elements. Iron and oxygen form three different compounds; ferric acid, ferrosoferric oxide and ferrous oxide. Ferrous is a greenish to black powder used as a pigment for glasses. This compound occurs in nature when heating a ferrous compound in the open air, also by passing hydrogen over the ferric acid. Another compound that forms from iron and chloride is ferrous chloride. Ferrous chloride is a yellowish green crystal made when dry hydrogen chloride gas comes in contact with red hot iron. Some iron compounds are used for various items of our everyday life some of these include; iron acetate used in the dyeing of clothes. Another compound that iron forms is ammonium oxalate used in blueprints and there is also arsenate used in insecticide to fight off pests. Chloride is a compound used in various activities such as water purification and sewage treatment, in the dyeing of clothes, in paint, in additive for animal food and in photography. Chromate is a compound used in yellow pigment for paints, in ceramics and hydroxide used for rubber. Phosphate is also a very useful compound of iron used as a fertilizer for both animal and human food. Acetate, another compound is used for wood preservative, and gluconate is used in dietary pills. The compound named sulfate is used in water purification systems and sewage treatment, as well as in the production of ammonia, an ingredient in fertilizer, in wood preservative, animal food and as an additive to increase iron levels in flour. All of these compounds are very important for our world because they form many combinations that we use for such things as paint, dietary pills, various foods and different everyday items.
 * __Iron Forming Compounds__**

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