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Is potassium hydrogen the same as potassium hydride?

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It's impossible to tell. "Potassium hydrogen" is clearly an error of some kind; it might be a somewhat confused attempt to write "potassium hydride," or it could be an omission error for something like "potassium hydrogen carbonate."

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