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Definition of Caustic potash
1. Noun. A potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry.
Definition of Caustic potash
1. Noun. (dated) Potassium hydroxide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Caustic potash
1. KOH;a strong, penetrating caustic. Synonym: caustic potash. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caustic Potash
Literary usage of Caustic potash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1857)
"It is very difficult to obtain caustic potash from the carbonate, ... I have
suggested the use of a mixture of caustic potash ana barytes for the same ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Ammonia or caustic potash or soda, white precipitate, rapidly becoming green and
then ... caustic potash or soda, the sume precipitate, soluble in excess, ..."
3. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer, Harold Govett Colman, Arthur Harden (1907)
"caustic, combining with water with incandescence to form caustic potash. ...
This compound, generally known by its old name of caustic potash, ..."
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