POTASSIUM BROMIDE

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Meaning:

A white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("potassium bromide" is a kind of...):

restrainer (a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film)

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

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