potassium bicarbonate

1. 1.

   a crystalline salt (KHCO3) that is used in baking powder and as an antacid

   Synonymspotassium acid carbonatepotassium hydrogen carbonate

   Broaderbicarbonate

Questions about potassium bicarbonate

What does potassium bicarbonate mean?

potassium bicarbonate means "a crystalline salt (KHCO3) that is used in baking powder and as an antacid".

What is another word for potassium bicarbonate?

Close synonyms include potassium acid carbonate, potassium hydrogen carbonate. 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 bicarbonate a common word?

potassium bicarbonate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.