potassium
noun /pəˈtæsiəm/
/pəˈtæsiəm/
[uncountable] (symbol K)
- a chemical element. Potassium is a soft silver-white metal that exists mainly in compounds which are used in industry and farming.
Topics Physics and chemistryc2钾 Collocations DictionaryPotassium is used before these nouns:- salt
词源early 19th cent.: from potash (earlier potass, from French potasse) + -ium.