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POTASSIUM BROMIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does potassium bromide mean?
• POTASSIUM BROMIDE (noun)
The noun POTASSIUM BROMIDE has 1 sense:
1. a white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography
Familiarity information: POTASSIUM BROMIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("potassium bromide" is a kind of...):
restrainer (a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film)
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
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