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potash

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pot=ash

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun potash has 1 sense

potash(n = noun.substance) caustic potash, potassium hydroxide - a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry; Array

is a kind of hydrated oxide, hydroxide, lye

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CIDE DICTIONARY

potash, n. [Pot + ash.].

The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

potash, n. an alkaline potassium compound, usu. potassium carbonate or hydroxide.

Etymology

17th-c. pot-ashes f. Du. pot-asschen (as POT(1), ASH(1)): orig. obtained by leaching vegetable ashes and evaporating the solution in iron pots

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