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Definition of Potassium acid carbonate

1. Noun. A crystalline salt (KHCO3) that is used in baking powder and as an antacid.

Literary usage of Potassium acid carbonate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Modern Chemistry by Charles Adolphe Wurtz, William Houston Greene (1889)
"potassium acid carbonate, KHCO*.—When a current of carbonic acid gas is passed into a concentrated solution of potassium neutral carbonate, ..."

2. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"potassium acid carbonate. See Potassium bicarbonate. ... Potassium Bicarbonate* (Potassium acid carbonate; known as baking soda in some countries) ..."

3. A Compend of inorganic chemistry by G. Mason Ward (1883)
"potassium acid carbonate, KH CO3. Preparation. This compound of potassium is ... potassium acid carbonate furnishes a solution nearly neutral to test paper ..."

4. A Compend of Chemistry by G. Mason Ward (1883)
"potassium acid carbonate, KH CO,. Preparation. This compound of potassium is prepared by passing a stream of carbonic acid through a solution of the neutral ..."

5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"AN/io arsenic solution was prepared, as usual, with the aid of 20 grms. of potassium acid carbonate to the litre. Twenty-two cc of this solution were drawn ..."

6. An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson, William Edwards Henderson (1917)
"Write equations for the preparation of potassium sulfate; of potassium-acid carbonate. 13. What weight of carnallite would be necessary in the preparation ..."

7. Uses, Tests for Purity and Preparation of Chemical Reagents: Employed in by Charles O. Curtman (1890)
"Also for separation of the quinine group of alkaloids, which from acid solutions are precipitated by potassium acid carbonate, from the strychnine group, ..."

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