potash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From pot + ash, because the substance was originally obtained by leaching ash in water and then boiling down the resulting solution in a pot. Compare Dutch potas, German Pottasche.
Compound parts: pot
ash
Inflected forms:
form: potashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: potashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: potashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: potashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: potashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The water-soluble part of wood ash, used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer (chemically speaking, an impure form of potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃) mixed with other potassium salts).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Potassium. Chiefly used in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash".
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: permanganate of potash
gloss: A class of potassium minerals, of similar applicability to potassium carbonate, such as being a fertilizer. (ie. potassium chloride, potassium hydroxide)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To treat with potassium.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Gold ornaments are sand blasted or steel brushed nicely, then potashed,
After removal from a worker bee they should be potashed in ten percent potassium hydroxide, washed, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted.
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.
Related words: potass
potassa
potassium
Derived words: acetate of potash
carbonate of potash
caustic potash
chlorate of potash
chromate of potash
citrate of potash
iridiate of potash
manganate of potash
muriate of potash
nitrate of potash
nitre of potash
osmiate of potash
oxygenated muriate of potash
permanganate of potash
plumbate of potash
potash alum
potash bentonite
potash blue
potashery
potash-feldspar
potash-felspar
potash-granite
potash greensand
potash kettle
potash-lime
potash lye
potash-mica
potash of sulfur
potash of sulphur
potash-water
potash water
silicate of potash
stannate of potash
stannite of potash
sulfate of potash
sulphate of potash
sulfurated potash
sulphurated potash
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قِلْو
roman: qilw
lang: Arabic
word: قِلْي
roman: qily
lang: Arabic
word: أُشْنَان
roman: ʔušnān
lang: Arabic
word: بُوتَاس
roman: būtās
lang: Bulgarian
word: поташ
roman: potaš
lang: Czech
word: potaš
lang: Danish
word: potaske
lang: Finnish
word: potaska
lang: French
word: potasse
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: Potääske
lang: Georgian
word: პოტაში
roman: ṗoṭaši
lang: German
word: Pottasche
lang: Hawaiian
word: pokaka
lang: Hungarian
word: kálium-karbonát
lang: Italian
word: potassa
lang: Latin
word: nitrum
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pottaske
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: pottoske
lang: Polish
word: potaż
lang: Russian
word: пота́ш
roman: potáš
lang: Ukrainian
word: по́та́ш
roman: pótáš