Two common methods are atomic absorption spectrophotometry and flame photometry.
Flame test
When potassium permanganate is dropped into water, the ions are solvated by the water molecules. This results because potassium permanganate is water soluble. Thus, the solid compound is separated into aqueous ions.
potassium oxide
Since all nitrates are soluble in water, you would get a mixture of Potassium ions and Nitrate ions floating around in water.
When the ionic compound of potassium ions are dissolved in water the hydroxyl ions of water which are negatively charged, will attract the positive potassium ions.
Get a wire. Bend it into a ring and put a few crystals of your solid on it. Do a flame test using a Bunsen burner. Potassium will give a violet flame and Sodium ions will give a Yellow flame.
Potassium chloride is an ionic compound, composed of positive potassium ions and negative chloride ions. When it dissolves in water, the ions separate and become surrounded by water molecules. Water is a covalent compound, but it is polar, which means that one end (the oxygen) is a little bit negative, and the other is a little bit positive. The slightly negative ends are attracted to the positive potassium ions and the slightly positive ends are attracted to the chloride ions. These are electrostatic attractions.
Aldosterone works to reabsorb sodium ions (and thereby water) at the expense of losing potassium ions. Ref: Marieb & Mitchell. A&P (9th ed.).
by adding acids in alum crystals
Potassium hydroxide is an ionic lattice. It has two types of ions and namely they are potassium ions and hydroxyl ions.
Potassium nitrate is soluble in water, as it is an ionic solid. When dissolved in water, potassium nitrate will form an aqueous solution of potassium and nitrate ions.
It dissociates into potassium ions and fluoride ions KF--> K+ + F-