potassium hydroxide
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The alkaline base KOH, once known as caustic potash; it has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of bleach.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured."