What does potash mean?

Definitions for potash
ˈpɒtˌæʃpotash

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. potash, caustic potash, potassium hydroxidenoun

    a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry

Wiktionary

  1. potashnoun

    the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap, glass and as a fertilizer

  2. potashnoun

    an impure form of potassium carbonate (KCO) mixed with other potassium salts

  3. potashnoun

    in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash", potassium (for example, "permanganate of potash" = potassium permanganate)

  4. Etymology: Potash comes from the word potasch (in modern spelling potas), coined by the Dutch in 1598. The literal translation is pot ash, because it was made by burning wood to ashes in a large pot. The English word Potash dates back to 1648.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Potashnoun

    Potash, in general, is an impure fixed alcaline salt, made by burning from vegetables: we have five kinds of this salt now in use;1. The German potash, made from burnt wood, and commonly sold under the name of pearlashes.2. The Spanish called barilia, made by burning a species of kali, a plant which the Spaniards sow in the fields as we do corn.3. The home-made potash, made from fern and other useless plants, collected in large quantities and burnt.4. The Swedish, and5. Russian kinds, with a volatile acid matter combined with them; but the Russian is stronger than the Swedish, which is made of decayed wood only: potash is of great use to the manufacturers of soap and glass, to bleachers and to dyers; it is also an ingredient in some medicinal compositions, but the Russian potash is greatly preferable to all the other kinds. John Hill Materia Medica.

    Etymology: potasse, Fr.

    Cheshire rock-salt, with a little nitre, allum and potash, is the common flux used for the running of the plate-glass. John Woodward, on Fossils.

Wikipedia

  1. Potash

    Potash () includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. The name derives from pot ash, plant ashes or wood ash soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing potash before the Industrial Era. The word potassium is derived from potash.Potash is produced worldwide in amounts exceeding 90 million tonnes (40 million tonnes K2O equivalent) per year, with Canada being the largest producer, mostly for use in fertilizer. Various kinds of fertilizer-potash constitute the single greatest industrial use of the element potassium in the world. Potassium was first derived in 1807 by electrolysis of caustic potash (potassium hydroxide).

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  1. potash

    Potash is a naturally occurring type of potassium salt that is a primary component in many types of fertilizer. It is commonly used in agriculture to promote plant growth and enhance resistance to disease. While the name "potash" comes from the process of leaching wood ash in pots to create potash lye, it now primarily refers to various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Potashnoun

    the hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash

  2. Potashnoun

    the impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash)

  3. Etymology: [Pot + ash.]

Wikidata

  1. Potash

    Potash is the common name for 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 in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing the product before the industrial era. Today, potash is produced worldwide at amounts exceeding 30 million tonnes per year, mostly for use in fertilizers. Various types of fertilizer-potash thus constitute the single largest global industrial use of the element potassium. Potassium derives its name from potash, and was first derived by electrolysis of caustic potash, in 1808.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Potash

    pot′ash, n. a powerful alkali, obtained from the ashes of plants—also Potass′.—n. Pot′ash-wa′ter, a kind of aerated water, which, when of full medicinal strength, contains fifteen grains of the bicarbonate of potash in each bottle—usually much less is put in. [Pot ashes.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. POTASH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Potash is ranked #29366 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Potash surname appeared 805 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Potash.

    96.8% or 780 total occurrences were White.
    1.9% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of potash in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of potash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of potash in a Sentence

  1. Humphrey Knight:

    However, if this did result in a slowdown in Qinghai Salt Lake's potash production then this would hand the advantage to overseas producers as it could increase China's dependency on potash imports.

  2. Stefan Borgas:

    Efficiency initiatives, which we expect to continue beyond 2016, reduced our production costs and led to record potash production at ICL Dead Sea and drove incremental profitability despite a difficult operating environment, in 2016, we will continue to create greater balance between our commodity and specialty businesses in order to optimally position ICL for further growth and profitability.

  3. Humphrey Knight:

    Should the company be forced to file for bankruptcy protection, we don't believe this would materially impact its potash business, however, if this did result in a slowdown in Qinghai Salt Lake's potash production then this would hand the advantage to overseas producers as it could increase China's dependency on potash imports.

  4. Chief Executive Stefan Borgas:

    We are trying to accelerate this switch because polysulphate is so much more profitable than MOP (common muriate of potash).

  5. Bryden Teich:

    A year out, the fundamentals for the potash market still look murky.

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