Potassium bisulfate is the potassium

Potassium

Potassium is the chemical element with the symbol K and atomic number 19. Elemental potassium is a soft silvery-white alkali metal that oxidizes rapidly in air and is very reactive with water, generating sufficient heat to ignite the hydrogen emitted in the reaction.Potassium and sodium are...

 salt of bisulfate anion, with the molecular formula . This compound is commonly used in the conversion of tartrates to bitartrates in wine. Potassium bisulfate is also used as a disintegrating agent in analytical chemistry

Analytical chemistry

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A solution

Solution

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 of potassium bisulfate behaves as if the two related compounds ( and ) were side by side uncombined. Adding ethanol

Ethanol

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to a solution of potassium bisulfate precipitates out sulfate.

Mercallite, the mineralogical form of potassium bisulfate, occurs very rarely. Misenite is the other, more complex, potassium hydrogen sulfate.