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potassium acetate
noun
- a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble powder, KC 2 H 3 O 2 , used chiefly as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
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In 2015, executioners administered the wrong drug—potassium acetate in place of potassium chloride—to Charles Warner during his execution.
The yellow precipitate obtained is washed with a solution 605 of potassium acetate and finally with dilute alcohol.
Boron can be estimated by precipitation as potassium fluoborate, which is insoluble in a mixture of potassium acetate and alcohol.
Diuretics—potassium acetate, potassium citrate, and oil of copaiba.
The catalytic process may, however, be set going at once by adding a trace of potassium acetate to the solution.
Sodium bicarbonate was less satisfactory, as were also potassium acetate, potassium citrate, and Rochelle salts.
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