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Potassium: History, Applications & Standards

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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Potassium topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Applications and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around Potassium.

Related topics
321
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
336
Extracted relationships
189
Related term clusters
73
Bridge connections
336

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 166 topics
Commercial uses · 53 topics
Properties · 36 topics
Commercial production · 25 topics
Occurrence · 12 topics
Etymology · 11 topics
Precautions · 7 topics
History · 6 topics
Discovery · 3 topics
Biological role · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

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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Overview

Etymology

Discovery

Properties

History

Occurrence

Commercial production

Commercial uses

Biological role

Precautions

Bibliography

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How Potassium connects Entity context

The extracted context around Potassium shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Potassium → Belarus, Canada, Canadian, Dead Sea, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Late Permian, Poland, Russia, Saskatchewan, Staßfurt, Zechstein Another extracted example is Potassium → Arabic, Berzelius, Davy's, German, Humphry Davy, Kalium, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Martin Klaproth, Swedish, The English. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Potassium

Top relations

related to Mining · 15
Potassium → Belarus, Canada, Canadian, Dead Sea, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Late Permian, Poland, Russia, Saskatchewan, Staßfurt, Zechstein
related to Etymology · 10
Potassium → Arabic, Berzelius, Davy's, German, Humphry Davy, Kalium, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Martin Klaproth, Swedish, The English
related to Geology · 10
Potassium → Deposits, Earth's, Elemental, Granite, K2SO4, KCl, MgCl2, MgSO4, Orthoclase, Sylvite
related to Potash · 10
Potassium → Antoine Lavoisier, Canada, Georg Ernst Stahl, Germany, Henri Louis Duhamel, Justus Liebig, Monceau, Potash, Staßfurt, Wood-ash
related to Fertilizer · 9
Potassium → Agricultural, Furthermore, K2O, K2SO4, KCl, KNO3, MgSO4, Modern, NPK
related to Compounds · 8
Potassium → Although, H2O, KC8, One, Owing, Reflecting, Rieke, Similar
related to Isotopes · 8
Potassium → Apart, Ar, Argon, Bq/g, Ca, Earth, Minerals, Naturally
is a · 6
Potassium → 20th most abundant element in the Solar System and the 17th most abundant element by weight in the Earth, chemical element, macronutrient required for life on Earth.40 K occurs in natural potassium, major cation, necessary element for plants and that most types of soil lack potassium caused a steep rise in demand for potassium salts, strong reducing agent
related to Discovery · 6
Potassium → Although, Davy, Humphry Davy, KOH, Later, NaOH
related to Chemical extraction · 5
Potassium → Although, Electrostatic, Humphry Davy, MOP, Several

Important terminology

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Important terminology

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

Potassium relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 189 structured relationships around Potassium. Examples in this analysis include Potassium → 39K → 93.3% and Potassium → 40K → 0.0117%. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
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
PotassiumMelting point336.7 K ​(63.5 °C, ​146.3 °F)1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Potassium bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Used, Sodium and Chloride. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • potassium chloride
    • Fertilizer
    • Used
    • Sodium
    • Chloride
    • Potassium
    • Salts
    • Form
    • Water
    • Production
    • Potash
    • Compounds
    • Metal
  • potassium nitrate
    • Used
    • Sodium
    • Chloride
    • Salts
    • Solubility
    • White
    • Water
    • Plasma
    • Compounds
    • Production
    • Potash
    • Cell
  • potassium hydrogen phthalate
    • Air
    • Oxygen
    • Used
    • Sodium
    • Water
    • Metal
    • Dietary
    • Fertilizer
    • Isolated
    • Isotopes
    • Chloride
    • Levels
  • potassium ion channels
    • One
    • Cell
    • Ions
    • Used
    • Sodium
    • Chloride
    • Salts
    • Water
    • Levels
    • Solubility
    • Plasma
    • Compounds
  • sodium chloride
    • Fertilizer
    • Used
    • Water
    • Potassium
    • Salts
    • Sodium
    • Form
    • Solubility
    • Production
    • Concentration
    • Potash
    • Compounds
  • Potassium
    • Used
    • Sodium
    • Chloride
    • Salts
    • Water
    • Plasma
    • Compounds
    • Cell
    • Production
    • Renal
    • Ions
    • Common
  • potassium
    • Used
    • Sodium
    • Chloride
    • Salts
    • Water
    • Plasma
    • Compounds
    • Cell
    • Production
    • Renal
    • Ions
    • Common
  • chemical element
    • Production
    • Element
    • Levels
    • Compounds
    • Air
    • Renal
    • Body
    • Common
    • Potash
    • Chloride
    • Metal
    • Dietary

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Potassium, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Potassium with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Potassium — Overview · splits 170 ⟂ 167
Potassium — Commercial uses · splits 283 ⟂ 54
Potassium — Properties · splits 300 ⟂ 37
Potassium — Commercial production · splits 311 ⟂ 26
Potassium — Occurrence · splits 324 ⟂ 13
Potassium — Etymology · splits 325 ⟂ 12
Potassium — Precautions · splits 329 ⟂ 8
Potassium — History · splits 330 ⟂ 7
Potassium — Bibliography · splits 332 ⟂ 5
Potassium — Discovery · splits 333 ⟂ 4
Potassium — Biological role · splits 334 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Potassium

Nodes337
Edges336
Triples189
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005935
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Potassium to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Potassium · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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