potas'sium bicar'bonate
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- a white, crystalline, slightly alkaline, salty-tasting, water-soluble powder, KHCO, produced by the passage of carbon dioxide through an aqueous potassium carbonate solution: used in cookery as a leavening agent and in medicine as an antacid. Also called
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