Talk:Potassium

changeover to IN Elements
Article changed over to Ingenpedia:Ingenproject Elements format by User:maveric149. Elementbox converted 11:57, 1 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 23:29, 26 June 2005).

Information Sources
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Potassium. Additional text was taken directly from USGS Periodic Table - Potassium. Other information was obtained from the sources listed on the main page but was reformatted and converted into SI units.

Production of Metal
The article states that "thermal methods" are used to prepare potassium. Is this referring to the reduction of molten potassium chloride with sodium vapor? If so, it should be more specific.

Mining - Out of Date
In the Mining section Potash Corp of Saskatchewan is mentioned, however that company merged with Agrium and is now called Nutrien. Unfortunately I can't edit the main page because of the lock. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Galassia1982 (talk • contribs) 07:37, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

table of amounts in 100 grams of foods by different sources
--Qdinar (talk) 13:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Density
The article gives a figure of 0.862 g/cm^3 in the infobox but 0.89 g/cm^3 in the text of the article (neither of which have citations). Sources on the internet all seem to have figures of either 0.862 g/cm^3 or 0.89 g/cm^3, with no consensus. What is the actual density of potassium metal at standard conditions? 67.82.172.25 (talk) 12:36, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * If you look at the bottom of the infobox, you will see a link to "references" that points you to List of data references for chemical elements. According to the page Densities of the elements (data page), there is some disagreement between sources, but it was apparently decided to use 0.89 g/cm3 which follows Lange and CRC. I've edited the infobox. Double sharp (talk) 13:25, 21 October 2020 (UTC)