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  • In soils low in nutrients like phosphate, pottasium and nitrogen, micro-doses of fertilizer are enough to double crop yields, Tabo said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The beet greens are especially healthy for pregnant women because of its folate, iron, pottasium and beta carotene contents.

    Beetgreens Shaak Cardamom 2006

  • To a solution of sulphate of copper, add a solution of ferrocyanide of pottasium, so long as a precipitate continues to be formed.

    Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

  • I have, of course, read of hangings, I have read of electrocutions, I have read of guilottinings, and also of the methods practised in some of the States of the Union, where I think they are killed by cyanide pottasium or something of that sort, and I can only say one seems about as humane as the other, and in any event the method of execution is hardly pertinent to a discussion of whether you '' have executions or not.

    The Death Penalty—For and Against 1954

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