Comments on: How do bananas have potassium in them, if it is a very reactive element? ?

By: Gary B

Gary B — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:24:47 +0000

Potassium ELEMENT is reactive.
Potassium COMPOUNDS are not.

For example, potassium chloride is often used to salt the street during winter. Potassium chloride is much less corrosive that sodium chloride that used to be used.

The potassium in bananas is not in elemental form, it is in compound form — combined with other elements.

By: cherryberryruchi

cherryberryruchi — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:24:47 +0000

Because its there in the ionic form.

By: OPC

OPC — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:24:47 +0000

well theirs not enough in there to do anything

By: pisgahchemist

pisgahchemist — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:24:47 +0000

Well, guess what! You have potassium in you, just like the banana. The potassium is not the highly reactive potassium metal, but the very unreactive potassium ion, K+

Bananas are high in potassium (ions). You need potassium in your diet. Potassium is important in your body as a means of transferring information from cell to cell.

By: The Beast

The Beast — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:24:47 +0000

the potassium is a part of a stable compound