[DOC] [TLE] Agri-Brief: POTASH TERMINOLOGY AND FACTS [PAR] Ever wonder where the term potash originated? Of course, potash is now 
commonly used in reference to potassium fertilizers. But, in ... by leaching wood 
ashes and drying or evaporating the leachate in iron potshence pot-ash. ... 
They consist of potassium in combination with chloride, sulfate, nitrate, and other 
elements. [DOC] [TLE] Potash - Wikipedia [PAR] Potash /pt/ is any of various mined and manufactured salts that contain 
potassium in water-soluble form. The name derives from pot ash, which refers to 
plant ashes soaked in water ... Various types of fertilizer-potash thus constitute 
the single largest global industrial use of the ..... Chemistry of the Elements (2 ed.)
. [DOC] [TLE] Fertilizers [PAR] Apr 25, 1999 ... The concentrations of plant nutrients in a fertilizer specify its grade or analysis. ... 
as guaranteed available nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash. ... Term in trade 
... A proper total supply and balance of nitrogen with other elements is very .... 
Urea is a common product in mixed dry or liquid fertilizers used in... [DOC] [TLE] Potash - Topics [PAR] The term potash comes from the Middle Dutch word potaschen (pot ashes, 1477). 
... wood ash (an occupation carried out by ash burners ), leaching the ashes and 
... constitute the single largest global industrial use of the element potassium. ... 
KCl which is then dried and packaged for use as a K rich fertilizerKCl dissolves
... [DOC] [TLE] understanding potassium and its use in agriculture - Potash ... [PAR] Feb 21, 2003 ... potash. This name derives from the ancient practice of obtaining potassium salts 
by burning wood, extracting the ash with water and evaporating the resulting 
solution in iron pots  hence pot-ashes. .... POTASSIUM in AGRICULTURE and 
the ROLE of the FERTILIZER ..... As the salts crystallise out. [DOC] [TLE] View - Rutgers NJAES [PAR] Apr 24, 2002 ... carbonate salt that was produced by leaching wood ashes and drying or 
evaporating the leachate in iron pots...hence pot ash. Early settlers... [DOC] [TLE] Patent US9017426 - Interconnected system and method for the ... [PAR] Apr 28, 2015 ... Try the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google ... b) passing the 
leached potash slurry through at least one thickener ... thickened potash solution 
through a first filter zone to filter out solid .... Potash was originally produced by 
leaching wood ashes and evaporating the solution in an iron pot,... [DOC] [TLE] Potash - Elemental Minerals Limited [PAR] Potash is the common name given to a group of potassium-bearing minerals ... 
needed for making soap, by the leaching of wood ashes in large iron pots. ... 90% 
of the world's potash production was used as agricultural fertilizer. ... The 
functions potassium performs cannot be carried out by other nutrients and potash 
has no... [DOC] [TLE] EarthMatters Summer 08.indd - New Mexico Bureau of Geology ... [PAR] New Mexico PotashPast, Present, and Future summer 2008 ... essential 
element in plant and animal life. Most potash is used in fertilizer (potassium ... 
pots of wood ash, hence the name. ... dry, and orderly, ... leaching, and crystalliza
- ... then skimmed off with paddles to obtain sylvite .... its amenable to low-cost 
mining and. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Fertilizers" - Internet Archive [PAR] A wood cord is about one hundred bushels ; in the ashes which contain the min- 
erals that ..... it before and after it had dried, that it lost seven-tenths of its original 
weight ; in other words, .... With- out draining, manure is a waste on such soils. .... 
The name " potash " was given it because it was made in iron pots from ashes. [DOC] [TLE] Potash - Government of New Brunswick [PAR] Originally, potash was produced by leaching wood ashes with water ... an iron 
pot. ... left in the pot was pot-ash, hence the name. ... Potassium is the seventh 
most abundant element in the earth's crust. th ... into the agricultural sector in the 
form of blended

Question: This fertilizer element was leached out of wood ashes & dried in iron pots, hence its other name, potash
Answer: Potassium