potassium acetate

noun

Chemistry.

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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The drug alfentanil might substitute for fentanyl and potassium acetate might substitute for potassium chloride, according to the execution plan.

Potassium acetate, a salt also used as an aircraft deicer, was mistakenly used by Oklahoma in a 2015 lethal injection.

The drug alfentanil might substitute for fentanyl and potassium acetate might substitute for potassium chloride, according to the state plan.

Potassium acetate, also used as an aircraft deicer, was mistakenly used by Oklahoma in a 2015 lethal injection.

In 2015, Oklahoma used the wrong drug, potassium acetate — not potassium chloride—to stop the heart of Charles Warner.