Potassium

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Potassium
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Properties and uses of Potassium

• The boiling point for potassium is 1425F
• Potassium has the melting point of 146F
• A slivery color is what potassium looks like
• 19 is the correct atomic number for potassium
• Last but not least the density for potassium is
  0.86 g.cm 3 at 0C

• Potassium is used in glass
• Also potassium is in soap
• It is in a lot of soils
• Potassium can be found in low sodium salt
• Last it is in just about every fertilizer
• Potassium takes up 2.4 of the Earths crust by
  weight

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Interesting Facts About Potassium

• The word potassium comes from the English word
  potash which means pot Ashes
• Potassium was discovered in 1807
• It was found by an English man named Sir Humphrey
  Davy
• It is in high demand as a fertilizer
• Potassium is easily cut with a knife
• You can find this element in the earths crust

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A Song About Potassium(to the Brady Bunch Theme
song)

• There is a story of a lovely element
• With nineteen protons and neutrons of its own
• And one day it met an atom
• With nineteen electrons of its own
• Potassium

• Yes its potassium
• Thats the way it became potassium
• Da da dadadum

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Used in glass
Used as a fertilizer
Atomic Number 19
Symbol K
Uses
Potassium
Found in most soils
Basic Info
Used in soap
In England
Discovered In 1807
Density is 0.86 g/cm At -3C
Atomic Weight 39.098
Origin
properties
By Sir Humphry Davy
Obtained it Through the Electrolysis And very
dry Molten Potash
Slivery
Boiling point Is 1425F
Alkali Metal
Melting point 146F
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Sources

• http//www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/ele
  ments/periodic-table/uses.html
• http//www.chemicalelements.com/index.html
• http//chemistry.about.com/library/blper5.htm
• http//www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_
  fla.htm
• http//chemistry.allinfoabout.com/periodic/periodi
  ctable.html