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Potassium

Alkali Metals

Chunk of potassium metal with peroxides/superoxides and ozonide on its surface.

Chunk of potassium metal with peroxides/superoxides (yellow crystals) and ozonide (red coloring) on its surface

Justin Urgitis, www.wikipedia.org

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