POTASSIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potassium hydrogen carbonate mean? 

• POTASSIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE (noun)
  The noun POTASSIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: POTASSIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTASSIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

potassium acid carbonate; potassium bicarbonate; potassium hydrogen carbonate

Hypernyms ("potassium hydrogen carbonate" is a kind of...):

bicarbonate; hydrogen carbonate (a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate)