How to Use potassium chloride in a Sentence

potassium chloride

noun
  • The third drug, potassium chloride, is known to be painful.
    Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The tank is filled with resin beads, and on top is a brine tank, which can be filled with salt or potassium chloride pellets.
    Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2020
  • But then the needle slipped out of the vein and dumped the paralytic and the potassium chloride into soft tissue.
    Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • By the end of April, potassium chloride had gone into shortage.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Sandoval would be injected with the same three drugs proposed in Nevada, plus potassium chloride to stop his heart.
    Author: Mark Berman, William Wan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The regeneration process slowly dissolves the salt or potassium chloride pellets in the brine tank.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2022
  • It was filled with a slurry of sodium chloride and potassium chloride kept at a sweltering 1,350 degrees Fahrenheit.
    cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Shults previously went to court and won access to the package inserts for potassium chloride, an execution drug that stops the inmates’ hearts.
    Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
  • First, the doctor injects potassium chloride or digoxin into the fetus’s heart, killing it within minutes.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • State officials would then inject potassium chloride to stop the prisoner’s heart.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 July 2019
  • Then a drug to paralyze the prisoner was injected, followed by potassium chloride, which literally makes the heart seize up like gears in a car without oil.
    Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The last drug, potassium chloride, induces cardiac arrest.
    Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Because dieting can lead to a lack of essential electrolytes in the body, the Leanbean formula contains potassium chloride.
    Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • But be wary of turning to commercial salt substitutes that swap sodium chloride with potassium chloride.
    Susan Puckett, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
  • In her arm: an IV hooked to the pathologist’s own invention, the Thanatron, which delivered heart-stopping potassium chloride into her bloodstream.
    Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The potassium chloride levels will be maintained to prevent further infestation, Devilbiss said, and the treatment should last for years.
    Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 27 Nov. 2019
  • That drug was followed by vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
    Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Potassium chlorate breaks down into plumes of potassium chloride gas.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Arkansas' supply of potassium chloride, which stops the inmate's heart, expired Friday.
    Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Tennessee plans called for use of midazolam as a sedative, the muscle-relaxer vecuronium bromide and then potassium chloride to stop the heart.
    Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Ohio used the sedative midazolam to induce unconsciousness, followed by a paralytic drug and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The three drugs are: midazolam, a sedative; vecuronium bromide, a paralytic; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
    Sean Murphy, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The three drugs are: midazolam, a sedative, vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • But mixing in a bit of sodium chloride and potassium chloride brought this down to 90° C—below the boiling point of water and compatible with a larger range of additional materials.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Though doctors were able to get his potassium levels up with large, intravenous doses of potassium chloride, his condition worsened.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The scientists also saw potassium chloride gas, a common component of magma, emerging from the volcanoes.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Once unconsciousness was confirmed, the rest of the chemicals began to flow through the IV lines: a muscle relaxant called rocuronium bromide, and potassium chloride, to induce cardiac arrest.
    New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The plant – or, more accurately, cluster of plants on the property – featured a concrete vat containing a slurry of potassium chloride and sodium chloride kept at 1,350-degrees Fahrenheit.
    Amber Hunt, Cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • These drugs include propofol, midazolam, and hydromorphone — all of which are used to sedate — as well as the drugs pancuronium bromide, which is a muscle relaxant, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
    Abdullah Shihipar, Teen Vogue, 30 Oct. 2018

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