potassium hydroxide

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Noun

potassium hydroxide (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The alkaline base KOH, once known as caustic potash; it has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of bleach.

   Synonyms: caustic potash, (obsolete) potassa

   • 1885, American Journal of Science, 3rd Series, Volume 30, page 57:

     The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured.

Hypernyms

• lye

Translations

potassium hydroxide

Catalan: hidròxid de potassi m, potassa càustica f Czech: hydroxid draselný m Finnish: kaliumhydroksidi French: hydroxyde de potassium (fr) m, potasse caustique (fr) f German: Kaliumhydroxid n, Ätzkali n, kaustisches Kali n Greek: υδροξείδιο του καλίου n (ydroxeídio tou kalíou) Hindi: दहातु उदजारेय (dahātu udjārey) Hungarian: kálium-hidroxid (hu), marókáli, kálilúg (hu) Icelandic: kalíumhýdroxíð n Italian: idrossido di potassio (it) m Japanese: 水酸化カリウム (suisanka kariumu), 苛性カリ (ja) (kaseikari) Norwegian: Bokmål: kaliumhydroksid n Nynorsk: kaliumhydroksid n Polish: wodorotlenek potasu m Portuguese: hidróxido de potássio m Russian: гидроксид калия (ru) m (gidroksid kalija) Spanish: hidróxido de potasio m, potasa cáustica f Swedish: kaliumhydroxid (sv) c Turkish: potasyum hidroksit (tr)