"potassium" in the noun sense
1. potassium, K, atomic number 19
a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
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