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You lose it in the fluids expelled from the body. When you are sweating, are sick with diarrhea or vomiting, are spitting excessively, or if you are taking certain diuretics (water pills), you may need extra potassium.
Athletes who sweat a lot need extra potassium, as well as sodium. Football players during summer two a day practices can lose up to 3 liters of fluid each practice. Wrestlers who are trying to make weight for their match will often lose weight by sweating in a sauna and spitting. Hikers may spend a long time without taking in fluid and potassium. Because they are losing fluid through perspiration, even if they do not feel it, they are losing potassium. Those living in the South or Southwest, especially those doing physical activities outdoors, are susceptible to losing fluid and potassium through perspiration. In the South, the humidity makes you more aware of the sweat. In the Southwest the dry air makes the fluid loss less noticeable. Some bodybuilders who have taken diuretics before a contest, trying to look "shredded", have died. Patients on potassium excreting diuretics usually need to take a potassium supplement.
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How many electrons are needed to gain or lose in potassium?
Electrons lose in case of potassium. It looses 1 electron.
When potassium forms a compound with iodine one electron is transferred from the atom to the atom?
Potassium lose an electron (iodine gain this electron) to form potassium iodide, KI.
What must happen for potassium to become stable?
Lose one electron
Will sodium and potassium form an ionic compound?
No. They both are looking to lose an electron. One will bond with an element that will take that electron. Potassium and iodine will form ionic bonds.
How does a atom of potassium-41 become a potassium ion with a 1 charge?
It loses (Ionises) 1 electron. The '41' is the atomici mass of this particular isotope of potassium. The atomic mass is the sum total of all the protons and neutrons in the nucleus. It has no bearing on potassiums ability to lose an electron .
How many electrons are needed to gain or lose in potassium?
Electrons lose in case of potassium. It looses 1 electron.
Will potassium lose electrons or gain electrons when reacting with bromine?
Potassium would lose electrons in all its reactions especially with Bromine.
Do bananas lose potassium after being cooked?
no banana does not loose the potassium after cooked.
Would potassium be more likely to give or receive electrons?
Potassium lose an electron.
When a potassium atom reacts with bromine the potassium atom will?
ll lose only 1 electron
When a potassium atom reacts with a bromine atom the potassium atom will?
lose only one electron
Does pottassium (k) gain or lose electrons?
Potassium is more likely to lose its electron to become a positive ion.
When potassium forms a compound with iodine one electron is transferred from the atom to the atom?
Potassium lose an electron (iodine gain this electron) to form potassium iodide, KI.
What must happen for potassium to become stable?
Lose one electron
How many lectrons are gained or lost in potassium?
Potassium loses one electron. All Alkali metals lose one electron.
Does potassium k lose electrons to form positive ions?
yes to form k+
Will sodium and potassium form an ionic compound?
No. They both are looking to lose an electron. One will bond with an element that will take that electron. Potassium and iodine will form ionic bonds.
