How to Use potassium chloride in a Sentence

potassium chloride

noun

• The third drug, potassium chloride, is known to be painful.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• The tank is filled with resin beads, and on top is a brine tank, which can be filled with salt or potassium chloride pellets.
  — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2020
• But then the needle slipped out of the vein and dumped the paralytic and the potassium chloride into soft tissue.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• By the end of April, potassium chloride had gone into shortage.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
• Sandoval would be injected with the same three drugs proposed in Nevada, plus potassium chloride to stop his heart.
  — Author: Mark Berman, William Wan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
• The regeneration process slowly dissolves the salt or potassium chloride pellets in the brine tank.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2022
• It was filled with a slurry of sodium chloride and potassium chloride kept at a sweltering 1,350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Shults previously went to court and won access to the package inserts for potassium chloride, an execution drug that stops the inmates’ hearts.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• First, the doctor injects potassium chloride or digoxin into the fetus’s heart, killing it within minutes.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• State officials would then inject potassium chloride to stop the prisoner’s heart.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 July 2019
• Then a drug to paralyze the prisoner was injected, followed by potassium chloride, which literally makes the heart seize up like gears in a car without oil.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• The last drug, potassium chloride, induces cardiac arrest.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• Because dieting can lead to a lack of essential electrolytes in the body, the Leanbean formula contains potassium chloride.
  — Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2022
• But be wary of turning to commercial salt substitutes that swap sodium chloride with potassium chloride.
  — Susan Puckett, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• In her arm: an IV hooked to the pathologist’s own invention, the Thanatron, which delivered heart-stopping potassium chloride into her bloodstream.
  — Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
• The potassium chloride levels will be maintained to prevent further infestation, Devilbiss said, and the treatment should last for years.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 27 Nov. 2019
• That drug was followed by vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2021
• Potassium chlorate breaks down into plumes of potassium chloride gas.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2019
• Arkansas' supply of potassium chloride, which stops the inmate's heart, expired Friday.
  — Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018
• Tennessee plans called for use of midazolam as a sedative, the muscle-relaxer vecuronium bromide and then potassium chloride to stop the heart.
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• Ohio used the sedative midazolam to induce unconsciousness, followed by a paralytic drug and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2020
• The three drugs are: midazolam, a sedative; vecuronium bromide, a paralytic; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — Sean Murphy, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
• The three drugs are: midazolam, a sedative, vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• But mixing in a bit of sodium chloride and potassium chloride brought this down to 90° C—below the boiling point of water and compatible with a larger range of additional materials.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2022
• Though doctors were able to get his potassium levels up with large, intravenous doses of potassium chloride, his condition worsened.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2020
• The scientists also saw potassium chloride gas, a common component of magma, emerging from the volcanoes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Oct. 2020
• Once unconsciousness was confirmed, the rest of the chemicals began to flow through the IV lines: a muscle relaxant called rocuronium bromide, and potassium chloride, to induce cardiac arrest.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• The plant – or, more accurately, cluster of plants on the property – featured a concrete vat containing a slurry of potassium chloride and sodium chloride kept at 1,350-degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Amber Hunt, Cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Lethal injection begins with a saline drip in the prisoner’s arm, followed by a dose of sodium thiopental, then pancuronium bromide, and finally potassium chloride.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024