Uses

**Uses** = = __**Uses of Potassium in Health Care**__
 * Essential to plant and animal life; one of three primary nutrients plants need
 * ** HUMAN BODY USES: **
 * It helps in controlling the proper balance of fluids in body fluids and cells
 * David Young says that "Potassium…plays a major role in nerve conduction and for enabling skeletal and cardiac muscle contraction…"
 * An average human that ways 150 pounds (70kg), had 5 ounces of potassium in their body

__**Other Uses of Potassium**__
 * The metal form of potassium can be used as a heat exchange medium in nuclear power plants
 * Potash is used frequently for fertilizer
 * Potassium is found in soil and is essential for plant growth
 * Potassium salts have many more commercial uses



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