Fun fact

Question

i learned that you have enough potassium in your body to create a small bomb. Weird.

Comments

Yeah and if we mix no² co² and oxygen with potassium it is able to make nuclear bomb

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Oh yeah nice lets teach kids how to make bombs.

Answer 1

Another fun fact, I was in the hospital lately with low potassium and they gave me 4 HUGE pills. And I mean big. I didnt even know they came in that size. That and only 1 cup of water. Not easy. But yeah neat fact :)

I also found a science website that had other cool facts about potassium

• Potassium is a shiny, lustrous metal at room temperature. When exposed to air, an oxidizing layer forms quickly, turning its appearance to a dull gray.
• Potassium vigorously reacts with water to form hydrogen gas. This gas can ignite from the energy released from the reaction, giving the impression the potassium burns in water.
• Potassium was the first metal to be discovered by electrolysis.
• Potassium has a low density for a metal. Pure potassium metal will float on water.
• Potassium burns with a bright red in a flame test. When in water, the flame takes on a lilac colored hue.
• Potassium is the seventh most abundant element in the human body.
• Potassium is the seventh most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, accounting for 4.2% by mass.
• The largest industrial use of potassium is for fertilizer.
• Potassium is used in soaps, gunpowder, bleaching agents and glass making.
• Potassium-40 is used much like carbon-14 as a radioactive dating marker. K-40 is used to determine the age of rock formations.

Comments

Oof! And are they as big as 2 quarters? I am just guessing