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Definition of Potassium bromide
1. Noun. A white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography.
Literary usage of Potassium bromide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"2. It especially stimulates the secretory nerves. ON THE INCOMPATABILITY OF
CHLORAL-HYDRATE AND ALCOHOL IN THE PRESENCE OF potassium bromide. ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"The solution saturated with both potassium bromide and iodine contains 2.52 moles
It and 0.71 moles potassium bromide per liter. ..."
3. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis: (chiefly Inorganic) by William Crookes (1886)
"Detection of Iodine in potassium bromide. When potassium bromide is suspected to
be adulterated, or mixed with potassium iodide, place a few grains of the ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1878)
"potassium bromide in Puerperal Convulsions. ... been led to the conclusion that
if potassium bromide is to be employed in cases of puerperal convulsions, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The carbon that is present then reduces the bromate to potassium bromide and free
carbon dioxide gas. When this process is complete, the mass is cooled and ..."
6. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"Potassium citrate is augmented by ammonium chloride and sodium bromide, is left
indifferent by potassium bromide, and is inhibited by all other salts. ..."
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