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Also known as K, element 19, 19K

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin ) and atomic number19. It is a silvery white metal that is soft enough to easily cut with a knife. Potassium metal reacts rapidly with atmospheric oxygen to form flaky white potassium peroxide in only seconds of exposure. It was first isolated from potash, the ashes of plants, from which its name derives. In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals, all of which have a single valence electron in the outer electron shell, which is easily removed to create an ion with a positive charge (which combines with ani

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Potassium is a chemical element with the symbol K and atomic number 19. Its standard atomic mass is 39.0983. The element was discovered in 1807. It exhibits oxidation states of -1 and 1. The chemical formula is represented as K.

Physical properties include a melting point of 336.4 and a boiling point of 1038.7. The density is 0.862, and the standard molar entropy is 64.2. Electronegativity is measured at 0.82, with an ionic radius of 1.64. The electron configuration is [Ar] 4s¹. The Unicode character for potassium is 鉀.

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