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Potassium

Index Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19. [1]

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  1. 303 relations: Acid, Adenosine triphosphate, Afferent nerve fiber, Agriculture, Air-free technique, Alkali, Alkali metal, Alkalide, Alkalosis, Alloy, Almond, Ammonia, Angewandte Chemie, Anhydrous, Antoine Lavoisier, Apricot, Argon, Arrhythmia, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Atomic number, Aureolin, Avocado, Baking powder, Bamboo shoot, Banana, Base (chemistry), Becquerel, Beer, Beetroot, Belarus, Benzyl potassium, Beta decay, Biotite, Bleach, Boson, Bran, Calcium, Calcium carbide, Canada, Carbon dioxide, Carbon-14, Carnallite, Ceramic, Chemical element, Chemical polarity, Chemical symbol, Chloroplatinic acid, CHNOPS, Chocolate, Chromate and dichromate, ... Expand index (253 more) »

  2. Alkali metals
  3. Chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure
  4. Desiccants
  5. Dietary minerals
  6. Pyrophoric materials

Acid

An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen ion, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis acid.

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Adenosine triphosphate

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide that provides energy to drive and support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis.

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Afferent nerve fiber

Afferent nerve fibers are axons (nerve fibers) of sensory neurons that carry sensory information from sensory receptors to the central nervous system.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Air-free technique

Air-free techniques refer to a range of manipulations in the chemistry laboratory for the handling of compounds that are air-sensitive.

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Alkali

In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.

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Alkali metal

|- ! colspan. Potassium and Alkali metal are alkali metals.

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Alkalide

An alkalide is a chemical compound in which alkali metal atoms are anions (negative ions) with a charge or oxidation state of −1. Potassium and alkalide are alkali metals.

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Alkalosis

Alkalosis is the result of a process reducing hydrogen ion concentration of arterial blood plasma (alkalemia).

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Alloy

An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.

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Almond

The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie (meaning "Applied Chemistry") is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker).

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Anhydrous

A substance is anhydrous if it contains no water.

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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

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Apricot

An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus.

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Argon

Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18. Potassium and Argon are chemical elements.

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Arrhythmia

Arrhythmias, also known as cardiac arrhythmias, are irregularities in the heartbeat, including when it is too fast or too slow.

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Atomic absorption spectroscopy

Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) and atomic emission spectroscopy (AES) is a spectroanalytical procedure for the quantitative determination of chemical elements by free atoms in the gaseous state.

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Atomic number

The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus.

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Aureolin

Aureolin (sometimes called cobalt yellow) is a pigment sparingly used in oil and watercolor painting.

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Avocado

The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear (Persea americana) is a medium-sized, evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae).

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Baking powder

Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid.

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Bamboo shoot

Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots (new bamboo culms that come out of the ground) of many bamboo species including Bambusa vulgaris and Phyllostachys edulis.

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Banana

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Base (chemistry)

In chemistry, there are three definitions in common use of the word "base": Arrhenius bases, Brønsted bases, and Lewis bases.

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Becquerel

The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI).

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Beer

Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.

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Beetroot

The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as beets while the vegetable is referred to as beetroot in British English, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Benzyl potassium

Benzylpotassium is an organopotassium compound with the formula C6H5CH2K, an orange powder.

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Beta decay

In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron), transforming into an isobar of that nuclide.

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Biotite

Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.

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Bleach

Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially or domestically to remove colour (whitening) from fabric or fiber (in a process called bleaching) or to disinfect after cleaning.

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Boson

In particle physics, a boson is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2,...). Bosons form one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particle, the other being fermions, which have odd half-integer spin (...). Every observed subatomic particle is either a boson or a fermion.

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Bran

Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the component of a cereal grain consisting of the hard layers - the combined aleurone and pericarp - surrounding the endosperm.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20. Potassium and Calcium are chemical elements and Dietary minerals.

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Calcium carbide

Calcium carbide, also known as calcium acetylide, is a chemical compound with the chemical formula of CaC2. Potassium and calcium carbide are desiccants.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Carbon-14

Carbon-14, C-14, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.

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Carnallite

Carnallite (also carnalite) is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride with formula KCl.MgCl2·6(H2O).

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Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.

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Chemical element

A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions. Potassium and chemical element are chemical elements.

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Chemical polarity

In chemistry, polarity is a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole moment, with a negatively charged end and a positively charged end.

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Chemical symbol

Chemical symbols are the abbreviations used in chemistry, mainly for chemical elements; but also for functional groups, chemical compounds, and other entities. Potassium and chemical symbol are chemical elements.

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Chloroplatinic acid

Chloroplatinic acid (also known as hexachloroplatinic acid) is an inorganic compound with the formula 2(H2O)x (0 ≤ x ≤ 6).

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CHNOPS

CHNOPS and CHON are mnemonic acronyms for the most common elements in living organisms.

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Chocolate

Chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods.

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Chromate and dichromate

Chromate salts contain the chromate anion,.

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Circadian clock

A circadian clock, or circadian oscillator, also known as one’s internal alarm clock is a biochemical oscillator that cycles with a stable phase and is synchronized with solar time.

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Circadian rhythm

A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.

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Coconut water

Coconut water (also coconut juice) is the clear liquid inside young coconuts (fruits of the coconut palm).

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Composition of the human body

Body composition may be analyzed in various ways.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are a group of starchy banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Coordination complex

A coordination complex is a chemical compound consisting of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the coordination centre, and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29. Potassium and Copper are chemical elements and Dietary minerals.

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Covalent bond

A covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electrons to form electron pairs between atoms.

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Crop yield

In agriculture, the yield is a measurement of the amount of a crop grown, or product such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.

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Dangerous goods

Dangerous goods (DG), are substances that when transported are a risk to health, safety, property or the environment.

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Dead Sea

The Dead Sea (al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or label; Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west.

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Desiccant

A desiccant is a hygroscopic substance that is used to induce or sustain a state of dryness (desiccation) in its vicinity; it is the opposite of a humectant. Potassium and desiccant are desiccants.

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Detonation

Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.

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Diarrhea

Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.

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Dietary Reference Intake

The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is a system of nutrition recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the National Academies (United States).

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Distal convoluted tubule

The distal convoluted tubule (DCT) is a portion of kidney nephron between the loop of Henle and the collecting tubule.

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Diuretic

A diuretic is any substance that promotes diuresis, the increased production of urine.

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Dough

Dough is a thick, malleable, sometimes elastic paste made from grains or from leguminous or chestnut crops.

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Dye

A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied.

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Earth's crust

Earth's crust is its thick outer shell of rock, referring to less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume.

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Electrocardiography

Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), a recording of the heart's electrical activity through repeated cardiac cycles.

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Electroforming

Electroforming is a metal forming process in which parts are fabricated through electrodeposition on a model, known in the industry as a mandrel.

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Electrolysis

In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.

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Electron capture

Electron capture (K-electron capture, also K-capture, or L-electron capture, L-capture) is a process in which the proton-rich nucleus of an electrically neutral atom absorbs an inner atomic electron, usually from the K or L electron shells.

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Electroplating

Electroplating, also known as electrochemical deposition or electrodeposition, is a process for producing a metal coating on a solid substrate through the reduction of cations of that metal by means of a direct electric current.

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Elk Point Group

The Elk Point Group is a stratigraphic unit of Early to Middle Devonian age in the Western Canada and Williston sedimentary basins.

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Ester

In chemistry, an ester is a functional group derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which the hydrogen atom (H) of at least one acidic hydroxyl group of that acid is replaced by an organyl group.

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Evaporite

An evaporite is a water-soluble sedimentary mineral deposit that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution.

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Exothermic process

In thermodynamics, an exothermic process is a thermodynamic process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings, usually in the form of heat, but also in a form of light (e.g. a spark, flame, or flash), electricity (e.g. a battery), or sound (e.g. explosion heard when burning hydrogen).

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Extracellular fluid

In cell biology, extracellular fluid (ECF) denotes all body fluid outside the cells of any multicellular organism.

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Fat

In nutrition, biology, and chemistry, fat usually means any ester of fatty acids, or a mixture of such compounds, most commonly those that occur in living beings or in food.

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Feldspar

Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.

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Fermion

In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics.

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.

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Feshbach resonance

In physics, a Feshbach resonance can occur upon collision of two slow atoms, when they temporarily stick together forming an unstable compound with short lifetime (so-called resonance).

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Fire extinguisher

A fire extinguisher is a handheld active fire protection device usually filled with a dry or wet chemical used to extinguish or control small fires, often in emergencies.

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Fireworks

Fireworks are low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.

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Flame test

A flame test is relatively quick test for the presence of some elements in a sample.

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Fly-killing device

A fly-killing device is used for pest control of flying insects, such as houseflies, wasps, moths, gnats, and mosquitoes.

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Georg Ernst Stahl

Georg Ernst Stahl (22 October 1659 – 24 May 1734) was a German chemist, physician and philosopher.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gibbs–Donnan effect

The Gibbs–Donnan effect (also known as the Donnan's effect, Donnan law, Donnan equilibrium, or Gibbs–Donnan equilibrium) is a name for the behaviour of charged particles near a semi-permeable membrane that sometimes fail to distribute evenly across the two sides of the membrane.

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Glomerulus (kidney)

The glomerulus (glomeruli) is a network of small blood vessels (capillaries) known as a tuft, located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79. Potassium and Gold are chemical elements.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Graphite

Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.

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Graphite intercalation compound

In the area of solid state chemistry, graphite intercalation compounds are a family of materials prepared from graphite.

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Gravimetric analysis

Gravimetric analysis describes a set of methods used in analytical chemistry for the quantitative determination of an analyte (the ion being analyzed) based on its mass.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Group (periodic table)

In chemistry, a group (also known as a family) is a column of elements in the periodic table of the chemical elements.

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Guano

Guano (Spanish from wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Haber process

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia.

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Half-life

Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.

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Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau

Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (20 July 1700, Paris13 August 1782, Paris), was a French physician, naval engineer and botanist.

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Hornblende

Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1. Potassium and Hydrogen are chemical elements.

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Hydrophile

A hydrophile is a molecule or other molecular entity that is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water.

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Hydroponics

Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops or medicinal plants, without soil, by using water-based mineral nutrient solutions in an artificial environment.

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Hyperkalemia

Hyperkalemia is an elevated level of potassium (K+) in the blood.

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Hyperpolarization (biology)

Hyperpolarization is a change in a cell's membrane potential that makes it more negative.

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Hypertension

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.

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Hypokalemia

Hypokalemia is a low level of potassium (K+) in the blood serum.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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Ileus

Ileus is a disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the intestine.

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Inductively coupled plasma

An inductively coupled plasma (ICP) or transformer coupled plasma (TCP) is a type of plasma source in which the energy is supplied by electric currents which are produced by electromagnetic induction, that is, by time-varying magnetic fields.

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Inert gas

An inert gas is a gas that does not readily undergo chemical reactions with other chemical substances and therefore does not readily form chemical compounds.

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Ink

Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design.

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Intercalation (chemistry)

Intercalation is the reversible inclusion or insertion of a molecule (or ion) into layered materials with layered structures.

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International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is an international federation of National Adhering Organizations working for the advancement of the chemical sciences, especially by developing nomenclature and terminology.

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Intravenous therapy

Intravenous therapy (abbreviated as IV therapy) is a medical technique that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.

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Ion channel

Ion channels are pore-forming membrane proteins that allow ions to pass through the channel pore.

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Ion transporter

In biology, an ion transporter is a transmembrane protein that moves ions (or other small molecules) across a biological membrane to accomplish many different biological functions, including cellular communication, maintaining homeostasis, energy production, etc.

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Ion-selective electrode

An ion-selective electrode (ISE), also known as a specific ion electrode (SIE), is a transducer (or sensor) that converts the change in the concentration of a specific ion dissolved in a solution into an electrical potential.

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Ionization energy

In physics and chemistry, ionization energy (IE) is the minimum energy required to remove the most loosely bound electron of an isolated gaseous atom, positive ion, or molecule.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius ((20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. In general, he is considered the last person to know the whole field of chemistry. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry.

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Jordan

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist.

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Justus von Liebig

Justus Freiherr (Baron) von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 20 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry.

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Kainite

Kainite (KMg(SO4)Cl·3H2O) is an evaporite mineral in the class of "Sulfates (selenates, etc.) with additional anions, with H2O" according to the Nickel–Strunz classification.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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K–Ar dating

Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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Kidney stone disease

Kidney stone disease, also known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (renal calculus) develops in the urinary tract.

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Kilogram

The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg.

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Labeling of fertilizer

Many countries have standardized the labeling of fertilizers to indicate their contents of major nutrients.

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Langbeinite

Langbeinite is a potassium magnesium sulfate mineral with the chemical formula K2Mg2(SO4)3.

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Laser cooling

Laser cooling includes several techniques where atoms, molecules, and small mechanical systems are cooled with laser light.

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Leather

Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.

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Lepidolite

Lepidolite is a lilac-gray or rose-colored member of the mica group of minerals with chemical formula.

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Lethal injection

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.

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Leucite

Leucite (from the Greek word leukos meaning white) is a rock-forming mineral of the feldspathoid group, silica-undersaturated and composed of potassium and aluminium tectosilicate KAlSi2O6.

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Life

Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not.

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Lilac (color)

Lilac is a light shade of purple representing the average color of most lilac flowers.

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Lithium

Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3. Potassium and Lithium are alkali metals, chemical elements and chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure.

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Loop diuretic

Loop diuretics are pharmacological agents that primarily inhibit the Na-K-Cl cotransporter located on the luminal membrane of cells along the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle.

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Louis Jacques Thénard

Louis Jacques Thénard (4 May 177721 June 1857) was a French chemist.

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Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert

Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (August 12, 1769 – March 7, 1824) was a German physicist and chemist, and professor of physics at the University of Leipzig.

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Magnesium chloride

Magnesium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Magnetometer

A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetic field or magnetic dipole moment.

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Martin Heinrich Klaproth

Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817) was a German chemist.

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Match

A match is a tool for starting a fire.

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Melting point

The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.

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Metal

A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.

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Metal aquo complex

In chemistry, metal aquo complexes are coordination compounds containing metal ions with only water as a ligand.

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Metamorphic rock

Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.

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Middle Devonian

In the geological timescale, the Middle Devonian epoch (from 397.5 ± 2.7 million years ago to 385.3 ± 2.6 million years ago) occurred during the Devonian period, after the end of the Emsian age.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mineral oil

Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils.

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Muscovite

Muscovite (also known as common mica, isinglass, or potash mica) is a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium with formula KAl2(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2, or (KF)2(Al2O3)3(SiO2)6(H2O).

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), also known as the National Academies, is a congressionally chartered organization that serves as the collective scientific national academy of the United States.

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National Academies Press

The US National Academies Press (NAP) was created to publish the reports issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

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National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), known as the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.

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The navy bean, haricot bean, pearl haricot bean, Boston bean, white pea bean, or pea bean is a variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) native to the Americas, where it was first domesticated.

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Neo-Latin

Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin in; others, throughout.

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Neon-burning process

The neon-burning process is a set of nuclear fusion reactions that take place in evolved massive stars with at least 8 Solar masses.

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Nephron

The nephron is the minute or microscopic structural and functional unit of the kidney.

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Neuron

A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across a neural network in the nervous system.

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Niobium

Niobium is a chemical element; it has symbol Nb (formerly columbium, Cb) and atomic number 41. Potassium and Niobium are chemical elements and chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure.

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Nitrile

In organic chemistry, a nitrile is any organic compound that has a functional group.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7. Potassium and Nitrogen are chemical elements.

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Noble gas

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North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University (NC State, North Carolina State, NC State University, or NCSU) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).

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Nucleosynthesis

Nucleosynthesis is the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible.

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Nutrien

Nutrien is a Canadian fertilizer company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Nutrient

A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.

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Nutrient cycle

A nutrient cycle (or ecological recycling) is the movement and exchange of inorganic and organic matter back into the production of matter.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).

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Orange juice

Orange juice is a liquid extract of the orange tree fruit, produced by squeezing or reaming oranges.

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Organic compound

Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.

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Organic synthesis

Organic synthesis is a branch of chemical synthesis concerned with the construction of organic compounds.

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Organosodium chemistry

Organosodium chemistry is the chemistry of organometallic compounds containing a carbon to sodium chemical bond.

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Orthoclase

Orthoclase, or orthoclase feldspar (endmember formula KAlSi3O8), is an important tectosilicate mineral which forms igneous rock.

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Osmosis

Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively-permeable membrane from a region of high water potential (region of lower solute concentration) to a region of low water potential (region of higher solute concentration), in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides.

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Oxidizing agent

An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a (called the,, or). In other words, an oxidizer is any substance that oxidizes another substance.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. Potassium and Oxygen are chemical elements.

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Parsley

Parsley, or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae that is native to Greece, Morocco and the former Yugoslavia.

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Paul Erman

Paul Erman (29 February 1764 – 11 October 1851) was a German physicist from Berlin, Brandenburg and a Huguenot of the fourth generation.

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Pergamon Press

Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals.

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Periodic table

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups"). Potassium and periodic table are chemical elements.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

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Petrography

Petrography is a branch of petrology that focuses on detailed descriptions of rocks.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Photoelectric flame photometer

Flame photometry is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy.

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Pistachio

The pistachio (Pistacia vera), a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originating in Persia.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Polyhalite

Polyhalite is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated sulfate of potassium, calcium and magnesium with formula:.

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Polyuria

Polyuria is excessive or an abnormally large production or passage of urine (greater than 2.5 L or 3 L over 24 hours in adults).

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Positron emission

Positron emission, beta plus decay, or β+ decay is a subtype of radioactive decay called beta decay, in which a proton inside a radionuclide nucleus is converted into a neutron while releasing a positron and an electron neutrino.

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Potash

Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

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PotashCorp

The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, also known as PotashCorp, was a company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Potassium amide

Potassium amide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Potassium bicarbonate

Potassium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: potassium hydrogencarbonate, also known as potassium acid carbonate) is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula KHCO3.

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Potassium bisulfite

Potassium bisulfite (or potassium hydrogen sulfite) is a chemical mixture with the approximately correctly mentioned formula chemical formula KHSO3.

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Potassium bromate

Potassium bromate is a bromate of potassium and takes the form of white crystals or powder.

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Potassium bromide

Potassium bromide (KBr) is a salt, widely used as an anticonvulsant and a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with over-the-counter use extending to 1975 in the US.

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Potassium carbonate

Potassium carbonate is the inorganic compound with the formula K2CO3. Potassium and Potassium carbonate are desiccants.

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Potassium channel

Potassium channels are the most widely distributed type of ion channel found in virtually all organisms.

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Potassium chlorate

Potassium chlorate is a compound containing potassium, chlorine and oxygen, with the molecular formula KClO3.

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Potassium chloride

Potassium chloride (KCl, or potassium salt) is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine. Potassium and potassium chloride are Dietary minerals.

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Potassium chromate

Potassium chromate is the inorganic compound with the formula K2CrO4.

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Potassium citrate

Potassium citrate (also known as tripotassium citrate) is a potassium salt of citric acid with the molecular formula K3C6H5O7.

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Potassium cyanide

Potassium cyanide is a compound with the formula KCN.

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Potassium fluoride

Potassium fluoride is the chemical compound with the formula KF.

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Potassium heptafluorotantalate

Potassium heptafluorotantalate is an inorganic compound with the formula K2.

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Potassium hexachloroplatinate

Potassium hexachloroplatinate is the inorganic compound with the formula K2PtCl6.

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Potassium hexanitritocobaltate(III)

Potassium hexanitritocobaltate(III) is a salt with the formula K3.

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Potassium hydroxide

Potassium hydroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula KOH, and is commonly called caustic potash. Potassium and Potassium hydroxide are desiccants.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.

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Potassium oxide

Potassium oxide (2O) is an ionic compound of potassium and oxygen.

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Potassium ozonide

Potassium ozonide is an oxygen rich compound of potassium.

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Potassium permanganate

Potassium permanganate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula KMnO4.

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Potassium peroxide

Potassium peroxide is an inorganic compound with the molecular formula K2O2.

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Potassium sodium tartrate

Potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate, also known as Rochelle salt, is a double salt of tartaric acid first prepared (in about 1675) by an apothecary, Pierre Seignette, of La Rochelle, France.

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Potassium sulfate

Potassium sulfate (US) or potassium sulphate (UK), also called sulphate of potash (SOP), arcanite, or archaically potash of sulfur, is the inorganic compound with formula K2SO4, a white water-soluble solid.

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Potassium superoxide

Potassium superoxide is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Potassium tetraphenylborate

Potassium tetraphenylborate is the salt with the formula KB(C6H5)4). It is a colourless salt that is a rare example of a water-insoluble salt of potassium. The salt has a low solubility in water of only 1.8×10−4 g/L. It is, however, soluble in organic solvents. The insolubility of this compound has been used to determine the concentration of potassium ions by precipitation and gravimetric analysis: The compound adopts a polymeric structure with bonds between the phenyl rings and potassium.

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Potassium-40

Potassium-40 (40K) is a radioactive isotope of potassium which has a long half-life of 1.25 billion years.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

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Prokaryote

A prokaryote (less commonly spelled procaryote) is a single-cell organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.

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Quantum engineering

Quantum engineering is the development of technology that capitalizes on the laws of quantum mechanics.

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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.

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Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.

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Radioactive tracer

A radioactive tracer, radiotracer, or radioactive label is a synthetic derivative of a natural compound in which one or more atoms have been replaced by a radionuclide (a radioactive atom).

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Radionuclide

A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess numbers of either neutrons or protons, giving it excess nuclear energy, and making it unstable.

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Reactive distillation

Reactive distillation is a process where the chemical reactor is also the still.

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Reagent

In chemistry, a reagent or analytical reagent is a substance or compound added to a system to cause a chemical reaction, or test if one occurs.

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Renal tubular acidosis

Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) is a medical condition that involves an accumulation of acid in the body due to a failure of the kidneys to appropriately acidify the urine.

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Rieke metal

A Rieke metal is a highly reactive metal powder generated by reduction of a metal salt with an alkali metal.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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S-process

The slow neutron-capture process, or s-process, is a series of reactions in nuclear astrophysics that occur in stars, particularly asymptotic giant branch stars.

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Saccharin

Saccharin, also called saccharine, benzosulfimide, or E954, or used in saccharin sodium or saccharin calcium forms, is a non-nutritive artificial sweetener.

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Salt (chemistry)

In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions (anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge (electrically neutral).

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Saltwater soap

Saltwater soap, also called sailors' soap, is a potassium-based soap for use with seawater.

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Saponification

Saponification is a process of cleaving esters into carboxylate salts and alcohols by the action of aqueous alkali.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Seabed

The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean.

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Serum (blood)

Serum is the fluid and solvent component of blood which does not play a role in clotting.

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Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Potassium and silver are chemical elements.

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Silvering

Silvering is the chemical process of coating a non-conductive substrate such as glass with a reflective substance, to produce a mirror.

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Soap

Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11. Potassium and Sodium are alkali metals, chemical elements, chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure, desiccants and Dietary minerals.

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Sodium carbonate

Sodium carbonate (also known as washing soda, soda ash and soda crystals) is the inorganic compound with the formula and its various hydrates.

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Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, commonly known as edible salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chlorine ions.

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Sodium hexanitritocobaltate(III)

Sodium hexanitritocobaltate(III) is inorganic compound with the formula.

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Sodium hydroxide

Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula. Potassium and Sodium hydroxide are desiccants.

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Sodium tetraphenylborate

Sodium tetraphenylborate is the organic compound with the formula NaB(C6H5)4.

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Sodium–potassium alloy

Sodium–potassium alloy, colloquially called NaK (commonly pronounced), is an alloy of the alkali metals sodium (Na, atomic number 11) and potassium (K, atomic number 19) that is normally liquid at room temperature. Potassium and Sodium–potassium alloy are desiccants and Pyrophoric materials.

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Sodium–potassium pump

The sodium–potassium pump (sodium–potassium adenosine triphosphatase, also known as -ATPase, pump, or sodium–potassium ATPase) is an enzyme (an electrogenic transmembrane ATPase) found in the membrane of all animal cells.

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Soil

Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.

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Solubility

In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent.

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Soybean

The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

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Spoil tip

A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – waste material removed during mining.

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Staßfurt

Staßfurt (Stassfurt) is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Stain

A stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon.

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Supernova

A supernova (supernovae or supernovas) is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star.

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Supernova nucleosynthesis

Supernova nucleosynthesis is the nucleosynthesis of chemical elements in supernova explosions.

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus

The suprachiasmatic nucleus or nuclei (SCN) is a small region of the brain in the hypothalamus, situated directly above the optic chiasm.

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Sylvite

Sylvite, or sylvine, is potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form.

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Syringa

Syringa is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family or Oleaceae called lilacs.

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Tannic acid

Tannic acid is a specific form of tannin, a type of polyphenol.

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Tantalum

Tantalum is a chemical element; it has symbol Ta and atomic number 73. Potassium and Tantalum are chemical elements and chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure.

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Tetramer

A tetramer (tetra-, "four" + -mer, "parts") is an oligomer formed from four monomers or subunits.

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The Journal of Experimental Biology

Journal of Experimental Biology (formerly The British Journal of Experimental Biology) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of comparative physiology and integrative biology.

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Thiazide

Thiazide refers to both a class of sulfur-containing organic molecules and a class of diuretics based on the chemical structure of benzothiadiazine.

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Tomato paste

Tomato paste is a thick paste made from tomatoes, which are cooked for several hours to reduce water content, straining out seeds and skins, and cooking the liquid again to reduce the base to a thick, rich concentrate.

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Tonne

The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92. Potassium and Uranium are chemical elements and Pyrophoric materials.

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Vagus nerve

The vagus nerve, also known as the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X, or simply CN X, is a cranial nerve that carries sensory fibers that create a pathway that interfaces with the parasympathetic control of the heart, lungs, and digestive tract.

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Valence electron

In chemistry and physics, valence electrons are electrons in the outermost shell of an atom, and that can participate in the formation of a chemical bond if the outermost shell is not closed.

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Vitreous enamel

Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between.

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Voltaic pile

Schematic diagram of a copper–zinc voltaic pile. Each copper–zinc pair had a spacer in the middle, made of cardboard or felt soaked in salt water (the electrolyte). Volta's original piles contained an additional zinc disk at the bottom, and an additional copper disk at the top; these were later shown to be unnecessary.

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Vomiting

Vomiting (also known as emesis and throwing up) is the involuntary, forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose.

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Weathering

Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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Wine

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).

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Zechstein

The Zechstein (German either from mine stone or tough stone) is a unit of sedimentary rock layers of Late Permian (Lopingian) age located in the European Permian Basin which stretches from the east coast of England to northern Poland.

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See also

Alkali metals

Chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure

Desiccants

Dietary minerals

Pyrophoric materials

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium

Also known as Applications of potassium, Compounds of potassium, Dipotassium, Element 19, History of potassium, K (element), K(+), Kalium, Koal, Potasium, Potassium Metabolism, Potassium applications, Potassium compound, Potassium compounds, Potassium in nutrition and human health, Potassium ion, Potassium metal, Potassium supplement, Potassium supplements, Potassium uses, Properties of potassium, Uses of potassium.

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