Definition of Potassium iodide

1. Noun. A crystalline salt in organic synthesis and in making photographic emulsions and in iodized table salt.

Generic synonyms: Iodide

Definition of Potassium iodide

1. Noun. (chemistry) a salt, ''KI'', formally derived from potassium hydroxide and hydriodic acid, used as an analytical reagent, in organic synthesis, and in the preparation of photosensitive emulsions and as a radioprotector to protect the thyroid. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Potassium Iodide

potation
potations
potato
potato-masher
potato bean
potato beetle

Literary usage of Potassium iodide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"potassium iodide Solution. Five grams of potassium iodide dissolved in 5 cc. of water is diluted to 100 cc. with glycerine. Procedure. ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"VOLUMETRIC METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF COPPER potassium iodide Method The procedure depends upon the fact that cupric salts when heated with potassium ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"The Effect of potassium iodide in Experimental Arteriosclerosis Due to Adrenalin Inoculations.—WT CUMMINS and PS STOUT (University of Pennsylvania Medical ..."

4. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1905)
"On January 26th her Index was '92; she was then given potassium iodide ... The total amount of potassium iodide taken in twenty-one days was 030 grains. ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"Experiments were made in which standard potassium bromate solution was added to potassium iodide in a solution that contained about fifty per cent, ..."

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