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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch potasch (modern spelling potas), coined in 1598. The literal translation is pot ash, because it was made by burning wood to ashes in a large pot. First attested in 1648.
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Noun[edit]
potash (countable and uncountable, plural potashes)
- the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap, glass and as a fertilizer
- (chemistry) an impure form of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) mixed with other potassium salts
- (chemistry, archaic) in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash", potassium (for example, "permanganate of potash" = potassium permanganate)
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Translations[edit]
pot ash
potassium carbonate etc
Verb[edit]
potash (third-person singular simple present potashes, present participle potashing, simple past and past participle potashed)
- To treat with potassium.
- 1910, Platers' Guide: With which is Combined Brass World:
- In order to ascertain the difference between the rapidity of pickling when the tin frames had been potashed and pickling without such treatment, two batches were used.
- 1915, Metal Finishing: Preparation, Electroplating, Coating:
- Gold ornaments are sand blasted or steel brushed nicely, then potashed,
- 1953, Nature Magazine, page 223:
- After removal from a worker bee they should be potashed in ten percent potassium hydroxide, washed, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted.
- 2003, Senckenbergiana biologica, page 136:
- For the extraction of the internal sclerites the aedeagus was potashed in cold saturated KOH solution for several hours and transferred to a vial of distilled water.
References[edit]
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]
