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potassium acetate

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble powder, KC 2 H 3 O 2 , used chiefly as a reagent in analytical chemistry.


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The yellow precipitate obtained is washed with a solution 605 of potassium acetate and finally with dilute alcohol.

Boron can be estimated by precipitation as potassium fluoborate, which is insoluble in a mixture of potassium acetate and alcohol.

Diuretics—potassium acetate, potassium citrate, and oil of copaiba.

The catalytic process may, however, be set going at once by adding a trace of potassium acetate to the solution.

Sodium bicarbonate was less satisfactory, as were also potassium acetate, potassium citrate, and Rochelle salts.

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