Potassium Quotes

• We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

  Alfred Kastler

  Light, Transition, Atoms

  Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Daughter, Texting, Might

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2011

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Roots, Blue, Paper

  12 Copy quote

• I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.

  Camillo Golgi

  Brain, Pieces, Blind

  16 Copy quote

• A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Cyanide, Cold

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's important to understand that calcium isn't just about what you eat; it's also about what you keep. Acidic animal products mine minerals like potassium, magnesium and calcium from our bodies. In fact, the countries that consume the most dairy have the highest rates of hip fracture and osteoporosis.

  Sharon Gannon

  Country, Animal, Osteoporosis

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

  Garik Israelian

  Energy, Connections, Decay

  9 Copy quote

• As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect mode of arrangement would certainly be to allow bodies to follow each other according to the order of their electro-chemical properties, from the most electro-negative, oxygen, to the most electro-positive, potassium; and to place every compound body according to its most electro-positive ingredient.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Science, Oxygen, Order

  "An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy: By the Application of the Electro-Chemical Theory and the Chemical Proportions". Book by Jons Jacob Berzelius, 1814.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

  Kary Mullis

  Want, Rockets, Bigger

  56 Copy quote

• What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Light, Long

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.3, Canongate Books

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.

  Camillo Golgi

  Believe, Communication, Gray Matter

  16 Copy quote

• Me and Frosted went to get a drink.
  But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think.
  She ordered potassium, calcium,
  Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium.
  She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch...
  I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth.

  LL Cool J

  Morning, Rap, Thinking

  Song: Milky Cereal, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

  10 Copy quote

  Show source