Kalium

See also: kalium and kálium

German

Chemical element (edit)
K Atomic number 19 Kalium
Classification data Period 4 Group 1 Block s-block Class alkali metal
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Etymology

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Arabic قِلْي (qily)der.

German Kali

German -um

German Kalium

Coined by Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert in 1809 from German Kali, as a replacement for the earlier term English potassium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːli̯ʊm/

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Noun

Kalium n (strong, genitive Kaliums, no plural)

1. potassium

Declension

Declension of Kalium [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Kalium
genitive	eines	des	Kaliums
dative	einem	dem	Kalium
accusative	ein	das	Kalium

Coordinate terms

• (chemical element): Previous: Argon. Next: Kalzium

Further reading

• “Kalium” in Duden online
• “Kalium”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Luxembourgish

Noun

Kalium n

1. potassium

Saterland Frisian

Noun

Kalium

1. potassium