potassium
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3.9
- noun
- /pəˈtæsiəm/
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potasio
- Try to eat a banana or a potato skin to keep your potassium up.
- potassium ions
- sodium and potassium
- potassium levels
Now, what happens to potassium nitrate when you heat it up?
- Now, what happens to potassium nitrate when you heat it up?
- It's how he isolated potassium from potash.
- People sometimes need extra electrolytes like sodium, potassium, magnesium when they get started on the diet.
- So you have this potassium rich environments.
- All the plant needs to grow is nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
- They throw ice in the chest and they give a potassium infusion through the blood, which stops the heart.
- But generally, most plants, vegetables and fruits do have pretty good levels of potassium in there.
- You need carbohydrate, you need sodium, potassium and magnesium in order to drive the brain muscle.
Examples
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All those three have good potassium contents and very low carbohydrates.
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Bananas are a good source of potassium... and I'd double coupons for the fish.
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And so if it is open, it allows potassium to pass through.
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When the sodium channels close, the potassium channels again take over.
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So we can see that there's a lot of potassium in the cells.
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People sometimes need extra electrolytes like sodium, potassium, magnesium when they get started on the diet.
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And his potassium is now normal (he has received potassium replacement in the IV fluids).
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I had to consume large doses of foul-tasting liquid potassium supplements daily.
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Bone broth is loaded with sodium and potassium and other compounds that act similar to magnesium.
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Fruits and vegetables often are high in potassium, which can help control blood pressure.
Synonyms
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3.9
The symbol for the element potassium
Compounds
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4.3
A white salt that gives potassium to the body and is used in industry
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4.7
A white salt used to help plants grow, make explosives, and preserve food
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4.7
A white salt used in medicine, photography, and to add iodine to table salt
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6.8
A white salt used in fireworks, matches, explosives, and for bleaching
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7.0
A method for finding how old rocks are by measuring potassium and argon
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8.6
A very poisonous white chemical used to get gold and to coat metal in factories
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6.1
A strong white chemical that people use in industry and farming to clean and make soil less acidic
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A medicine that reduces pain and swelling, often used for headaches and muscle pain
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A poisonous colorless salt used to fix colors in dyeing and formerly to make people vomit
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A medicine with potassium used to treat infections caused by bacteria
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A salt that makes cakes rise in baking powder and calms stomach acid
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A bright orange red crystal used to make dyes, for photography, and to help chemical reactions, and is toxic
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A yellow chemical in small crystals that contains cyanide and is used in industry and gardening
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A white powder used in baking to make cakes rise and keep egg whites stable
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A white crystal people use to clean water, help dye cloth, and make skin less oily
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A white powder that makes baked goods rise and reduces stomach acid
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A white powder that helps egg whites keep their shape and improves texture of baked goods
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A white powder that dissolves in water and is used to make glass, soap, and cleaners
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A white powder used to help with mild constipation in some medicines
Surface Forms
Morphology
potassium = potash (semi-transparent) = potass + ium
Formed from 'potash' + the metal-forming suffix '-ium'; the etymological link is clear but the chemical naming and spelling shift make the relation only partially obvious to general learners.
Etymology
Potassium comes from potash, the name for the 'ash' left in a pot when people burned plants, because early chemists made salts from these ashes and found a new metal. So, the name links the element to those old 'pot ash' salts and to its role in plants and foods like bananas.