potassium oxalate

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K 2 C 2 O 4 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and in medical tests as an anticoagulant.

Example Sentences

In fact the salt of sorrel in the leaves contains a large quantity of oxalic acid mixed with potassium oxalate.

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The "oxalate solution" is made by dissolving potassium oxalate in about three times its weight of water.

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It is made from so-called "saturated solutions" of proto-sulphate of iron and potassium oxalate.

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Thus the chrome tannage is reversible in solutions of ammonium or potassium oxalate and of ammonium acetate.

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Note:—The potassium oxalate and the formalin must both be neutral to phenolphthalein.

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