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Potassium bromide   /pətˈæsiəm brˈoʊmˌaɪd/   Listen
Potassium bromide

noun
1.
A white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography.





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"Potassium bromide" Quotes from Famous Books



... has been shown by Hermann and Long that exactly 3 volumes of carbon monoxide to 1 of ethylene are evolved. The residual potassium bromide is estimated by means of standard silver nitrate solution. Bromoform is specially suitable for this purpose for several reasons. It is very readily formed by the action of bromine and potash on acetone, and although very volatile ...
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford
... and taking the latch-key of the street-door, he went to his chemist's in Dover Street and bought some potassium bromide and sal volatile. When he came back ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett


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