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Definition of: potassium
(pə·tas′ē·əm) noun
A soft, silvery, very light element (symbol K, atomic number 19) of the alkali group, an essential element in living systems and in nature containing traces of a long-lived radioactive isotope. See PERIODIC TABLE. [<NL <POTASSA]
—po·tas′sic adjective
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