potassium

1. 1.

   a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite

   SynonymsKatomic number 19

   Broadermetallic element

Other forms of potassium

plural

potassiums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about potassium

What does potassium mean?

potassium means "a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite".

How many syllables are in potassium?

potassium has 4 syllables: po-tas-si-um. The stress falls on "tas". In IPA it is /pəˈtæsiəm/.

What is another word for potassium?

Close synonyms include K, atomic number 19. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potassium a common word?

potassium is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.