different between potassium vs diazoxide

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

Etymology

Blend of (benzothia)diazine +? dioxide.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?.??z?k?sa?d/

Noun

diazoxide (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) A potassium channel activator which causes local relaxation in smooth muscle by increasing membrane permeability to potassium ions, used as a vasodilator to treat hypertension and in diabetes to decrease the secretion of insulin.

References

• “diazoxide”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).