Word Meanings - POTASHES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Potash.

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• POTASHES
  Potash.
• POTASH
  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 wood ashes, either as a strong solution