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potassium bromide

NOUN
  1. a white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography

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  • It then proved that potassium bromide and potassium iodide showed the spectra that are characteristic of a face-centred cubic lattice, while the spectra of potassium chloride represented a simple cubic lattice, sodium chloride occupying an intermediate position. Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 - Presentation Speech
  • In 1901 he established that by decreasing the sodium chloride in food, potassium bromide is rendered so effective for the treatment of epilepsy that the therapeutic dose falls from 10 g to 2 g. Charles Richet - Biography
  • Prolonged intake of potassium bromide can lead to bromide intoxication or bromism.
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