Potassium dichromate / sulfuric acid: (chromosulfuric acid)
Eqn: K2Cr2O7 + 4H2SO4 ------> 2KCr(SO4)2 + 7H2O
This material has many uses. It can be used as a cleaning agent for laboratory glassware. Potassium dichromate (usually acidified with sulfuric acid), or any other dichromate for that matter, can be used to determine the amount of ethanol in a solution using back titration. It can also be used as a universal visualization reagent for organic compounds (e.g,, alcohols, bile acids, lipds) in TLC (thin layer chromatography) analyses.