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Potashes
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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the crude potassium carbonate obtained by lixiviating wood ashes and evaporating the solution to dryness, an operation at one time carried out in iron pots - hence the name from "pot" and "ashes." The term potash or caustic potash is frequently used for potassium hydroxide, whilst such a phrase as sulphate of potash is now appropriately replaced by potassium sulphate. (See POTASSIUM.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Potashes'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/potashes.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Potashes'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/potashes.html. 1910.
