potassium acetate
Americannoun
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It also says that it is considering potassium acetate, which is also found in automobile antifreeze, instead of potassium chloride.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2021
It is Florida's first time using potassium acetate too, which was used in a 2015 execution in Oklahoma by mistake, but has not been used elsewhere, a death penalty expert said.
From Time • Aug. 24, 2017
Robert Patton, Oklahoma’s prisons director said last week after the Glossip mistake that the state’s drug supplier, which he declined to name, believed potassium acetate could be swapped with potassium chloride.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2015
State prison officials said they were posted potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride, the third drug used in Oklahoma's lethal injection formula.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2015
The catalytic process may, however, be set going at once by adding a trace of potassium acetate to the solution.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
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