Description & History
po·tas·si·um (circa 1807):
a silver-white soft light low-melting univalent metallic element of the alkali metal group that occurs abundantly in nature especially combined in minerals
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Element
| Symbol | K |
| Z | 19 |
| Atomic Weight | 39.1020012 |
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| Density | 0.861999989 |
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Edge Energies
(keV)
| K | 3.60700011 |
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| L1 | 0.340999991 |
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| L2 | 0.297300011 |
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| L3 | 0.29460001 |
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| M | 0.0340000018 |
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| K-alpha | 3.31299996 |
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| K-beta | 3.58899999 |
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| L-alpha | 0. |
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| L-beta | 0. |
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Edge jumps
| K | 8.83687401 |
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| L1 | 1.15215552 |
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| L2 | 2.10063171 |
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| L3 | 0. |
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Fluorescence
yield
| K | 0.140000001 |
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| L1 | 0.000239999994 |
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| L2 | 0.0340000018 |
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| L3 | 3.31299996 |
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