potassium oxalate
a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K2C2O4⋅H2O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and in medical tests as an anticoagulant.
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In fact the salt of sorrel in the leaves contains a large quantity of oxalic acid mixed with potassium oxalate.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de TaveraThe "oxalate solution" is made by dissolving potassium oxalate in about three times its weight of water.
The Barnet Book of Photography | VariousIt is made from so-called "saturated solutions" of proto-sulphate of iron and potassium oxalate.
The Barnet Book of Photography | VariousThus the chrome tannage is reversible in solutions of ammonium or potassium oxalate and of ammonium acetate.
Animal Proteins | Hugh Garner BennettNote:—The potassium oxalate and the formalin must both be neutral to phenolphthalein.
The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes | Lewis Webb Hill
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