Crossword-Solution: POTASH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Potash | n. | The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash. |
| Potash | n. | The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash). |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POTASH | anagram | PASHTO, PATHOS, SHOPAT, TAPHOS |
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Sentences with POTASH (5)
Some operators add muriate of potash and other substances, but these do not possess any advantage except in cases where it is necessary to bleach the solarized portions of the impression, and when such is the case, chloride of sodium (common salt) is probably as effective and is the most convenient.
Muriates of potash and soda afford a precipitate, which darkens speedily to a pure dark brown, and muriatic acid, or aqueous chlorine, do not appear to increase the darkening power beyond the lilac to which the pure chloride of silver changes by exposure.
Edward Atkinson says that for each bale of cotton there are fifteen hundred pounds of stems, and that these are very rich in phosphate of lime and potash; that when ground and mixed with ensilage or cotton-seed meal (which is too rich for use as fodder in large quantities), the stem mixture makes a superior food, rich in all the elements needed for the production of milk, meat, and bone.
Petrone believes it was due to a chromogenic micrococcus, and relieved the patient by the use of a five per cent solution of caustic potash.
Books lay promiscuously about, while here and there long lines of bichromate-of-potash cells could be seen, together with experimental models of ideas that Edison or his assistants were engaged upon.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 102 times in crossword archives (1946–2024).