potassium oxalate

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noun

Chemistry.

1. a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K 2 C 2 O 4 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and in medical tests as an anticoagulant.

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potassium oxalate

Note:—The potassium oxalate and the formalin must both be neutral to phenolphthalein.

From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Hill, Lewis Webb

Making the ferrous oxalate solution from two saturated solutions of iron sulphate and potassium oxalate has not succeeded so well with me for transparencies.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various

The electric current decomposes the potassium oxalate into the carbonate, so that a precipitate of cobalt carbonate is simultaneously formed with the separation of the metallic cobalt.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

To clear the lines, or to make additions, or to write on the blue margin of the proof a solution of potassium oxalate is employed.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

The instrument is then removed to the dark room, and the plates developed by immersing them all at once in a solution consisting of four parts potassium oxalate and one part ferrous sulphate.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various