potassium hydroxide

English

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)