potassium iodide

1. 1.

   a crystalline salt in organic synthesis and in making photographic emulsions and in iodized table salt

   Broaderiodide

Questions about potassium iodide

What does potassium iodide mean?

potassium iodide means "a crystalline salt in organic synthesis and in making photographic emulsions and in iodized table salt".

Is potassium iodide a common word?

potassium iodide 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.