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

To 25 c.c. of urine add 5 c.c. of a saturated solution of potassium oxalate and 2 to 3 drops of phenolphthalein.

From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Hill, Lewis Webb

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

The developer consists of an almost saturated solution of potassium oxalate acidified by oxalic acid, and for use heated to 80—85 deg.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

In fact the salt of sorrel in the leaves contains a large quantity of oxalic acid mixed with potassium oxalate.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Uses.—The part of the plant used in medicine is the leaf which is acid by virtue of the potassium oxalate which it contains.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers