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Definition of Bone ash
1. Noun. Ash left when bones burn; high in calcium phosphate; used as fertilizer and in bone china.
Definition of Bone ash
1. Noun. The white, powdery ash left when bone is burnt; it is high in calcium phosphate and is used as a fertilizer and in making bone china. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bone ash
1. Ca3(PO4)2;used as an antacid. Synonym: bone ash, bone phosphate, tertiary calcium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, whitlockite. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone Ash
Literary usage of Bone ash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"When a brand of bone ash makes a dry pressed cupel which is inclined to crack or
split, this tendency is overcome by admixture of the unsaturated portion of ..."
2. A Manual of Fire Assaying by Charles Herman Fulton (1911)
"The bone which yields the bone-ash on calcining has the following composition.2
... These bones will produce bone-ash of the following composition: 1 Kerl, ..."
3. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp (1916)
"Bone-ash is still a leading source, but the mineral phosphates, ... In the old
process, tricalcium phosphate (as bone-ash) was decomposed with sulphuric ..."
4. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"... such well-known fertilizers as bone-meal, bone-ash, bone-black, superphosphate
of lime, phosphate rock, such as is found in South Carolina and Florida, ..."
5. Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blowpipe by Carl Friedrich Plattner (1888)
"Two grades are used, the sifted and the elutriated bone-ash. ... This yields the
sifted bone-ash. A portion of the sifted bone-ash is put ..."
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