potassium
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| English Wikipedia article on Potassium |
Etymology
[edit]Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1807, from potassa (a Latinized form of potash) + -ium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]potassium (usually uncountable, plural potassiums)
- A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element with atomic number 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983.
- (countable) An atom of this element.
- This reaction substitutes a potassium for a sodium.
Synonyms
[edit]- kalium (obsolete)
Derived terms
[edit]- acesulfame potassium
- bismuthide of potassium
- bromide of potassium
- carbonate of potassium
- chromate of potassium
- dipotassium
- hexapotassium
- hydrogen potassium carbonate
- hyperpotassemia
- hypopotassemia
- methylpotassium
- monopotassium
- nonpotassium
- organopotassium
- pentapotassium
- plumbate of potassium
- potassamide
- potassian
- potassic
- potasside
- potassiferous
- potassio-
- potassium-39
- potassium-40
- potassium-42
- potassium-43
- potassium acesulfame
- potassium acetate
- potassium acid carbonate
- potassium adipate
- potassium alginate
- potassium aluminate
- potassium aluminium silicate
- potassium aluminium sulfate
- potassium aluminum sulfate, potassium aluminium sulphate
- potassium amide
- potassium antimonyl tartrate
- potassium argentocyanide
- potassium-argon dating
- potassium ascorbate
- potassium bentonite
- potassium benzoate
- potassium bicarbonate
- potassium bifluoride
- potassium bisulfate
- potassium bisulphite
- potassium bitartrate
- potassium bromate
- potassium bromide
- potassium carbonate
- potassium channel
- potassium chlorate
- potassium chloride
- potassium chromate
- potassium citrate
- potassium cyanide
- potassium deficiency
- potassium dichromate
- potassium dicyanoargentate
- potassium feldspar
- potassium ferrate
- potassium ferricyanide
- potassium ferrocyanide
- potassium fluoborate
- potassium fluoride
- potassium fluorotantalate
- potassium fluorotitanate
- potassium fluosilicate
- potassium formate
- potassium fulminate
- potassium fumarate
- potassium gluconate
- potassium glutamate
- potassium glycerophosphate
- potassium gold chloride
- potassium gold cyanide
- potassium guanylate
- potassium hexafluoroaluminate
- potassium hexafluoroantimonate
- potassium hexafluoroarsenate
- potassium humate
- potassium hydrate
- potassium hydride
- potassium hydrogen carbonate
- potassium hydroxide
- potassium inosinate
- potassium iodate
- potassium iodide
- potassium iodohydrargyrate
- potassium lactate
- potassiumlike
- potassium linoleate
- potassium magnesium chloride hexahydrate
- potassium malate
- potassium manganate
- potassium manganite
- potassium metabisulfite
- potassium niobate
- potassium nitrate
- potassium nitrite
- potassium osmate
- potassium oxalate
- potassium oxide
- potassium percarbonate
- potassium perchlorate
- potassium periodate
- potassium permanganate
- potassium peroxide
- potassium persulfate
- potassium perxenate
- potassium phosphate
- potassium platinocyanide
- potassium plumbate
- potassium salt
- potassium selective electrode
- potassium silicate
- potassium silver cyanide
- potassium soap
- potassium sorbate
- potassium stannate
- potassium stannite
- potassium sulfate, potassium sulphate
- potassium sulfite
- potassium sulphite
- potassium thiocyanate
- potassium titanyl phosphate
- potassium vanadate
- potassium xanthate
- potassium zirconium fluoride
- potassoxyl
- radiopotassium
- sodium-potassium pump
- tetrapotassium
- tripotassium
- undecapotassium
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the chemical element
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Potassa and Potassium in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
- Potassium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's Online periodic table
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]potassium m (uncountable)
Descendants
[edit]- Lingala: potasu
Further reading
[edit]- “potassium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]potassium (uncountable)
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