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31 examples of Potassium in a sentence

And the first paper is a standard scientific paper, presenting evidence, "Iridium layer at the K-T boundary, and potassium argon dated crater in Yucatan, indicate that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
So what we're doing at the moment is we're accumulating metals like calcium, potassium and magnesium from out of desalination brine.
Half the calories a brain burns go towards simply keeping the structure intact by pumping sodium and potassium ions across membranes to maintain an electrical charge.
Even bananas contain trace amounts of a radioactive potassium isotope.
We also mine magnesium, lithium, silica, and potassium to make phones, and all of it is associated with vast habitat destruction, as well as air and water pollution.
Substances like copper, calcium chloride, and potassium chloride can add their own characteristic hues to the mix.
And these are individual potassium ions that are flowing through that pore.
This tissue is packed with nutrients and ions like calcium, potassium, and iron, which the tree has absorbed through its roots.
Carnivorous plants tend to grow in places with highly acidic soil, which is poor in crucial nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
On the other side, charged particles, or ions, line the muscle cell’s membrane: potassium on the inside, and sodium on the outside.
Sodium flows in, and potassium flows out.
ATP also helps pump the ions back across the membrane afterward, resetting the balance of sodium and potassium on either side.
But eventually, over the course of repeated contractions there may not be sufficient concentrations of potassium, sodium or calcium ions immediately available near the muscle cell membrane to reset the system properly.
Even when ions like sodium, potassium or calcium are depleted in or around the muscle cell, these ions are plentiful elsewhere in the body.
With a little time, they will flow back to the areas where they’re needed, sometimes with the help of active sodium and potassium pumps.
It had three chemicals we were really surprised to see: sulfur, potassium nitrate and charcoal.
They send it out for amateur rocketeers, and it said in there do not ever heat a mixture of potassium perchlorate and sugar.
So, I went to the drug store and I tried to buy some potassium perchlorate and it wasn't unreasonable then for a kid to walk into a drug store and buy chemicals.
And he had potassium nitrate.
You know, I started off with little tiny amounts of potassium nitrate and sugar, which was readily available, and I mixed it in different proportions, and I tried to light it on fire.
As the water cools, ions precipitate out as mineral crystals, including quartz crystals from silicon and oxygen, feldspar from potassium, aluminum, silicon, and oxygen, galena from lead and sulfur.
And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
If there is too much uranium or potassium or thorium, probably, again, there would be no life.
Indian children inhale large doses of sulphur and potassium chlorate to fashion flammable powder into matches.
More than 99.9% of the Earth’s crust is composed of oxides of silicon, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, potassium, titanium, and phosphorus.
Authorities have distributed potassium iodide tablets to the nearby towns of Yerham, Dimona, and Aruar.
Did he obtain air using chemical methods, releasing the oxygen contained in potassium chlorate by heating it, meanwhile absorbing the carbon dioxide with potassium hydroxide?
In 1,000 grams one finds 96.5% water and about 2.66% sodium chloride; then small quantities of magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium bromide, sulfate of magnesia, calcium sulfate, and calcium carbonate.
It consists of a Bunsen battery that I activate not with potassium dichromate but with sodium.
To absorb it, we would need to fill containers with potassium hydroxide and shake them continually.