different between potassium vs abraum

English

Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1807, from potassa +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?t?s???m, IPA^(key): /p??tæsi?m/

Noun

potassium (usually uncountable, plural potassiums)

2. A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Related terms

• K?
• potash
• potass
• potassa

Translations

References

• Potassa and Potassium in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
• Potassium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• carnallite
• langbeinite
• polyhalite
• potash
• saltpeter, saltpetre
• sylvite

Anagrams

• assumptio

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.ta.sj?m/

Noun

potassium m (uncountable)

1. potassium

Descendants

• Lingala: potasu

Further reading

• “potassium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

potassium (uncountable)

1. potassium

English

Alternative forms

• Abraum salts

Etymology

From German abräumen (“to remove”), from ab (“from”) (Old High German aba (“away”)) + raum (“space”) (Old High German r?m).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???p?a?m/

Noun

abraum (uncountable)

1. A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

References

Anagrams

• muraba