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Definition of Potassium chloride
1. Noun. Salt of potassium (KCl) (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency.
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Generic synonyms: Chloride
Definition of Potassium chloride
1. Noun. (inorganic compound) The potassium salt of hydrochloric acid, KCl; it is used as a fertilizer, and in lethal injections ¹
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Literary usage of Potassium chloride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"potassium chloride-is very similar in its general properties to sodium chloride (common
salt). It has a saline taste, is white in color and crystallizes in ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"potassium chloride being, in its aqueous solution, a strongly ionized salt, we
have here a high concentration of the potassium ion ; in this case the one ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"... alcohol are capable of dissolving, at the same temperature, 9-2 pte.
of potassium-chloride. Chloride of potassium is decomposed by ..."
4. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"From the chloride of platinum and ruthenium the metals nrc precipitated with
ammonium or potassium chloride and filtered. The filter is washed with dilute ..."
5. 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 (1907)
"In this way the more concentrated potassium chloride becomes more dilute, ...
The pole in the more dilute solution of potassium chloride, receiving silver ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The insoluble ]K>rtion is oxidised with bromine water, potassium chloride and
hydrochloric acid are added and the solution concentrated ; a yellow ..."
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