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Potassium is a soft, silvery metal that reacts violently with water and ignites spontaneously in air. Your doctor recommends that you take a potassium supplement. Would you take potassium metal? If not, what would you take?
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This means that if we ingest potassium metal, it will react violently with the water in our body, which can be harmful. Show more…
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