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potassium sulfide

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chemical compound

Chemical data

Formula
K2S
Molecular weight
110.26 g/mol
IUPAC name
dipotassium;sulfide
SMILES
[S-2].[K+].[K+]
InChIKey
DPLVEEXVKBWGHE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Polar surface area
1 Ų
H-bond donors
0
H-bond acceptors
1
Formal charge
0

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Encyclopedic overview

Powdered potassium sulfide anhydrous Potassium sulfide is an inorganic compound with the formula K2S. The colourless solid is rarely encountered, because it reacts readily with water, a reaction that produces potassium hydrosulfide (KSH) and potassium hydroxide (KOH). Most commonly, the term potassium sulfide refers loosely to this mixture, not the anhydrous solid.

Structure

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “potassium sulfide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.