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potassium hydroxide

HKO

Potassium hydroxide has the molecular formula HKO and a molar mass of 56.11 g/mol, a melting point of 406 °C and a boiling point of 1,323.9 °C.

Properties

Molecular formulaHKO
Molar mass56.106 g/mol
Exact (monoisotopic) mass55.96645 g/mol
Melting point406 °C
Boiling point1,323.89 °C
Density2.04 g/cm³
Topological polar surface area1 Ų
Hydrogen-bond donors / acceptors1 / 1
Heavy atoms2
InChIKeyKWYUFKZDYYNOTN-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Elemental composition

3 atoms across 3 elements, by mass.

ElementAtomsPercent by mass
Potassium (K)169.69%
Oxygen (O)128.52%
Hydrogen (H)11.80%

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Molar mass and elemental composition are computed from IUPAC 2021 conventional atomic weights. Formula, exact mass and the computed descriptors come from PubChem, which is US government work and in the public domain. Melting point, boiling point and density come from Wikidata under CC0. Properties with no figure shown are absent from those sources rather than zero.