potassium fluoride

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, toxic powder, KF, used chiefly as an insecticide, a disinfectant, and in etching glass.

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potassium fluoride

The splintered fluorine atoms, the researchers report, are safely sequestered by reacting them with potassium hydride in solution to form potassium fluoride, a nontoxic ingredient in toothpaste.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024

In 2013, a team of researchers led by Sanford showed9 how to make such bonds with a safer potassium fluoride salt using a copper catalyst.

From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2016

A second group of 45 rats, living on the same diet, had their teeth bathed in a weak mixture of potassium fluoride in water once a day.

From Time Magazine Archive

The portion insoluble in water is readily dissolved in hydrofluoric acid, and is converted into zircon potassium fluoride.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

The forces which here come into play appear to be considerably greater than those just mentioned; for instance, potassium fluoride is perhaps the most stable of all known compounds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various