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Fertilizer ingredient
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potash
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Word definitions for potash in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potash \Pot"ash`\, n. [Pot + ash.] (Chem.) The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH , having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash . The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Potash shortage is often an induced condition caused by too much nitrogen reducing the potash content to an unbalanced proportion. ▪ A suitable high potash alternative is tomato food. ▪ Apple trees require plenty of potash and ...
Usage examples of potash.
In solutions rendered faintly acid with acetic acid, they give a yellow precipitate with bichromate of potash.
Made by dissolving 12 grams of tartaric acid and 4 grams of stannous chloride in water, and adding potash solution till it is alkaline.
Its efficacy may be increased in this disease by adding to each bottle one ounce of the acetate of potash, and, when thus modified, it may be administered in the same manner as if no addition had been made to it.
Fritsche in the same year by the distillation of indigo with caustic potash developed a product which he also called aniline, the name being derived from the Portuguese word anil, meaning indigo.
Permanganate of potash is a salt much used in assaying, with some properties of which the student will have already become familiar.
Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.
The other substances, azotic acid and potash, were all at his disposal.
Harding then took two slips of zinc, one of which was plunged into azotic acid, the other into a solution of potash.
Cyrus Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.
Cyrus Harding then took two slips of zinc, one of which was plunged into azotic acid, the other into a solution of potash.
They consisted of short rolls of paper with a compound made of sugar and chlorate of potash on one end to which was attached a small globule of acid.
Properly prepared, it is extremely inflammable, especially when it has been previously saturated with gunpowder, or boiled in a solution of nitrate or chlorate of potash.
Each fluid ounce of the fresh juice contains about forty-four grains of citric acid, with gum, sugar, and a residuum, which yields, when incinerated, potash, lime, and phosphoric acid.
Chemically the Potato contains citric acid, like that of the lemon, which is admirable against scurvy: also potash, which is equally antiscorbutic, and phosphoric acid, yielding phosphorus in a quantity less only than that afforded by the apple, and by wheat.
Chemically this Love Apple contains citric and malic acids: and it further possesses oxalic acid, or oxalate of potash, in common with the Sorrel of our fields, and the Rhubarb of our kitchen gardens.