potassium
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- A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element with atomic number 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983.
- A single atom of this element.
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Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1807, from potassa (a Latinized form of potash) + -ium.
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