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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19. It is a silvery white metal that is soft enough to easily cut with a knife. Potassium metal reacts rapidly with atmospheric oxygen to form flaky white potassium peroxide in only seconds of exposure. It was first isolated from potash, the ashes of plants, from…

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39K
93.3%
40K
0.0117%
41K
6.73%
Appearance
silvery white, faint bluish-purple hue when exposed to air
Atomic number (Z)
19
Atomic radius
empirical: 227 pm

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Potassium

Nodes337
Edges336
Triples258
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005935
Components1

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related to Bibliography · 25
Potassium → A22, Anorganischen Chemie, Bauer, Butterworth-Heinemann, Chemistry, Earnshaw, Elements, German, Greenwood NN, Gruyter, Hagedorn, Holleman AF, Industrial Chemistry, ISBN, Lehrbuch, National Nutrient Database Archived, Schachl, Schmittinger, Schultz, Ullmann's Encyclopedia
related to Mining · 18
Potassium → Belarus, Canada, Canadian, Dead Sea, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Late Permian, Middle, Poland, Russia, Saskatchewan, Staßfurt, The, They, Zechstein
related to Fertilizer · 14
Potassium → Agricultural, Furthermore, In, K2O, K2SO4, KCl, KNO3, MgSO4, Modern, Most, NPK, Only, The, They
related to Potash · 14
Potassium → Antoine Lavoisier, Canada, For, Georg Ernst Stahl, Germany, Henri Louis Duhamel, Justus Liebig, Monceau, Other, Potash, Staßfurt, The, While, Wood-ash
related to Isotopes · 13
Potassium → Apart, Ar, Argon, Bq/g, Ca, Earth, In, It, Minerals, Naturally, The, There, This
related to Compounds · 12
Potassium → Although, H2O, KC8, Most, One, Owing, Reflecting, Rieke, Similar, The, These, With
related to Etymology · 12
Potassium → Arabic, Berzelius, Davy's, German, Humphry Davy, In, Kalium, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Martin Klaproth, Swedish, The, The English
related to Geology · 11
Potassium → Deposits, Earth's, Elemental, Granite, K2SO4, KCl, MgCl2, MgSO4, Orthoclase, Sylvite, The
related to Precautions · 9
Potassium → Because, Finely, KOH, Many, Nitrogen, Some Class, The, These, This
related to Chemical extraction · 7
Potassium → Although, Electrostatic, Humphry Davy, MOP, Most, Several, The

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sodium used salts water chloride potash metal 40 ions compounds element also one cell renal production common plasma body first

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Potassium39K93.3%1.00infobox
Potassium40K0.0117%1.00infobox
Potassium41K6.73%1.00infobox
PotassiumAppearancesilvery white, faint bluish-purple hue when exposed to air1.00infobox
PotassiumAtomic number (Z)191.00infobox
PotassiumAtomic radiusempirical: 227 pm1.00infobox
PotassiumBlocks-block1.00infobox
PotassiumBoiling point1030.793 K ​(757.643 °C, ​1395.757 °F)1.00infobox
PotassiumBrinell hardness0.363 MPa1.00infobox
PotassiumBulk modulus3.1 GPa1.00infobox
PotassiumCAS Number7440-09-71.00infobox
PotassiumCovalent radius203±12 pm1.00infobox
PotassiumCritical point2223 K, 16 MPa1.00infobox
PotassiumCrystal structure​body-centered cubic (bcc) (cI2)1.00infobox
PotassiumDensity (at 20° C)0.8590 g/cm31.00infobox
PotassiumDiscovery and first isolationHumphry Davy (1807)1.00infobox
PotassiumElectrical resistivity72 nΩ⋅m (at 20 °C)1.00infobox
PotassiumElectron configuration[Ar] 4s11.00infobox
PotassiumElectronegativityPauling scale: 0.821.00infobox
PotassiumElectrons per shell2, 8, 8, 11.00infobox
PotassiumGroupgroup 1: hydrogen and alkali metals1.00infobox
PotassiumHeat of fusion2.33 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PotassiumHeat of vaporization76.9 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PotassiumIonization energies1st: 418.8 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PotassiumIonization energies2nd: 3052 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PotassiumIonization energies3rd: 4420 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PotassiumIonization energies(more)1.00infobox
PotassiumLattice constanta = 532.69 pm (at 20 °C)1.00infobox
PotassiumMagnetic orderingparamagnetic1.00infobox
PotassiumMain isotopes.mw-parser-output .isotopes-table{text-align:center;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .isotopes-table-headers>:not(:first-child){padding:0…1.00infobox

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