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unusual facts about Potassium carbonate


Julius Vorster

Green Mountain brought the know-how, how one can produce potash as a substitute for nitrate on an industrial scale.


Orcein

If the conversion is carried out in the presence of potassium carbonate, calcium hydroxide, and calcium sulfate (in the form of potash, lime, and gypsum in traditional dye-making methods), the result is litmus, a more complex molecule.

Potassium picrate

Potassium picrate was first prepared as impure in mid-17th century by Johann Rudolf Glauber by dissolving wood in nitric acid and neutralizing with potassium carbonate.

Tetrahydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone

The dark purple and insoluble dipotassium salt K2C6H2O6 was prepared by Preisler and Berger in 1942, by oxidizing inositol with nitric acid and reacting the result with potassium carbonate in the presence of oxygen.


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Green chemistry metrics

For example, inorganic reagents (such as potassium carbonate in a Williamson ether synthesis) are ignored as they are not incorporated into the final product.

Rhodizonic acid

Rhodizonic acid was discovered by Austrian chemist Johann Heller in 1837, by analyzing the products of heating a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal.