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Potassium hydroxide

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  1. 1
    The alkaline base KOH, once known as caustic potash; it has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of bleach. uncountable

    "The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured."

  2. 2
    a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry wordnet

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