All puppies are born blind and deaf. They are able to smell, and they use this sense to locate their mother even though they cannot see her. The milk in the mother's breasts has a scent the puppies are able to follow. Some puppies are born with cataracts, although these can improve with age. As the puppy grows, the lens grows as well, but the cloudy area that makes up the cataract does not increase in size. When the puppy reaches adulthood, the cloudy area is proportionally small compared to the rest of the lens.
K = #1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 3s^2 3p^6 4s^1#. This simplifies to a noble gas notation of:K = #[Ar] 4s^1#. Potassium (K) is an Alkali metal found in the first column (Group I) and in the fourth row (period 4) of the periodic table. All alkali metals end in #s^1# for their electron configuration. The total electron configuration for potassium is. K = #1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 3s^2 3p^6 4s^1#. This simplifies to a noble gas notation of. K = #[Ar] 4s^1#. We use the symbol for argon (Ar) because it is the last noble gas in the period (row) above potassium on the periodic table.
Potassium is a chemical element with symbol K (derived from Neo-Latin, kalium) and atomic number 19. It was first isolated from potash, the ashes of plants, from which its name derives. In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals. All of the alkali metals have a single valence electron in the outer electron shell, which is easily removed to create an ion with a positive charge â a cation, which combines with anions to form salts. Potassium in nature occurs only in ionic salts.