potassium hydroxide

English

Noun

potassium hydroxide (uncountable)

(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

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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)

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