Death! It is often given to prisoners with death penalty.
Typically, three drugs are used in succession to perform euthanasia: Sodium thiopental is used to induce unconsciousness; Pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest; and Potassium chloride to stop the heart.
In 1970's the people used Intravenous saline water with barbiturates & paralytic . But now in most states three separate injections (in sequential order) are used : # Sodium thiopental: ultra-short action barbiturate, an anaesthetic agent capable of rendering the offender unconscious in a few seconds. # Pancuronium: non-depolarizing muscle relaxant, causes complete, fast and sustained paralysis of the skeletal striated muscles, including the diaphragm and the rest of the respiratory muscles; this would eventually cause death by asphyxiation. # Potassium chloride: stops the heart, and thus causes death by cardiac arrest. The drugs are not mixed externally as that can cause them to precipitate
Pancuronium Bromide stop the movement of muscles by competing with acetylcholine. This means once the muscle stop contracting a person can't breath and therefore pancuronium can be used in the lethal injection.
It consists of magnesium bromide, potassium chloride, calcium chloride, sodium chloride, magnesium chloride and of course water.
Sodium chloride, NaCl Potassium bromide, KBr
2KBr + Cl2 ----> 2KCl + Br2
lethal injection uses potassium chloride to stop the heart from working and is the 3rd drug injected since there are only 3 drugs involved during lethal injection. FYI:lethal injection uses. sodium thiopental =induces unconciousness =also used for anasteasia in surgeries ect pencuronium bromide =mustle relaxant =paralizes the victim potassium chloride =induses cardiac arrest =stops heart from working ST=ANESTHETIC AGENT PB=PARALYZING AGENT PC=TOXIC AGENT this should answer your question on potassium chloride the other acids and bases im not realy fimmilular with hope this helped.
The reaction of chlorine with potassium bromide is a reduction-oxidation reaction. The chloride oxidizes bromide ions to molecular bromine, and itself is reduced to chloride ions.
chlorine plus potassium bromide gives bromine plus potassium chloride. Here is the symbol equation, but remember that the numbers AFTER the symbols should be subscripts. Cl2 + 2KBr = Br2 + 2KCl
potassium bromide + fluorine --> potassium fluoride + bromide
Here are examples of ionic bonds and ionic compounds: NaBr - sodium bromide KBr - potassium bromide NaCl - sodium chloride NaF - sodium fluoride KI - potassium iodide KCl - potassium chloride CaCl2 - calcium chloride K2O - potassium oxide MgO - magnesium oxide You can recognize ionic compounds because they consist of a metal bonded to a nonmetal.
Examples: sodium chloride, lithium bromide, potassium carbonate - solubles in water.