Potash Definition

pŏtăsh
noun

Potassium carbonate (esp. when obtained from wood ashes)

Webster's New World

Potassium hydroxide.

Webster's New World
Any substance containing potassium; esp., salts derived from natural brines, distillery waste, flue dusts of blast furnaces, etc., whose potassium content is expressed in terms of K2O: used in fertilizers, soaps, etc.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Potash

Noun

Singular:
potash
Plural:
potashes

Origin of Potash

  • Potash comes from the word potasch (in modern spelling potas), coined by the Dutch in 1598. The literal translation is pot ash, because it was made by burning wood to ashes in a large pot. The English word Potash dates back to 1648.

    From Wiktionary

  • From sing. of obsolete pot ashes an alkaline substance obtained by leaching wood ashes and evaporating the leachate in a pot

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Potash Sentence Examples

  • All other soaps result from the combination' of fatty oils and fat with potash or soda solutions under conditions which favour saponification.

  • With fused potash it forms potassium oxalate and acetate.

  • These are washed with ammonium chloride until the filtrate is colourless, ignited, fused with caustic potash and nitre, the melt dissolved in water and nitric acid added to the solution until the colour of potassium ruthenate disappears.

  • The higher regions produce cork trees, oaks, pines, chestnuts, &c., but the forests have been largely destroyed by speculators, who burned the trees for charcoal and potash, purchasing them on a large scale from the state.

  • Potash solution converts it into a mixture of potassium cyanide and cyanate.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOT

Words Ending With

HSHASH

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