potassium chloride
noun
: a crystalline salt KCl occurring as a mineral and in natural waters and used especially as a fertilizer
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Magnesium chloride and potassium chloride can still damage plants (and pavement, like concrete), but won’t be as potent as sodium chloride.
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Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 27 Dec. 2024
Underwood was also given Xanax on Wednesday night and again Thursday morning before he was injected with a three-drug cocktail of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
The third drug, potassium chloride, stops the heart.
—CBS News, 19 Dec. 2024
The only one mentioned on the FDA’s recalls website was the potassium chloride.
—Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
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Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 27 Dec. 2024
Underwood was also given Xanax on Wednesday night and again Thursday morning before he was injected with a three-drug cocktail of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
The third drug, potassium chloride, stops the heart.
—CBS News, 19 Dec. 2024
The only one mentioned on the FDA’s recalls website was the potassium chloride.
—Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Potassium chloride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potassium%20chloride. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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