potassium bromide

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   a white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography

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Questions about potassium bromide

What does potassium bromide mean?

potassium bromide means "a white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography".

Is potassium bromide a common word?

potassium bromide 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.