Definition of Potashes

1. n. pl. Potash.

Definition of Potashes

1. Noun. (plural of potash) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Potashes

1. potash [n] - See also: potash

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potashes

potamography
potamological
potamology
potamophilous
potargo
potarite
potash
potash-feldspar
potash-felspar
potash alum
potash kettle
potash lye
potash of sulfur
potash of sulphur
potashed
potashes (current term)
potashing

Literary usage of Potashes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"LeBlanc's invention was most timely in that it very quickly diminished materially the production of potashes which, in vie\^ of the increased demand for ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"Sulphate of sodium Insoluble matter r. i ï ^ j • 7875 V. Meyer's Analyses of American potashes (New York). 2. Potash as a bye-product from the manufacture ..."

3. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1863)
"VOLUMETRIC EXAMINATION OF potashes AND KELP. The methods described for the analysis of crude soda are, of course, equally applicable iu the examination of ..."

4. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Walter Rogers Johnson (1848)
"The value of soda is, therefore, proportional to the quantity of soda contained in the carbonate; and that of any kind of potashes, to the amount of alkali, ..."

5. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Walter Rogers Johnson, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1848)
"potashes. bat which is ordinarily called soda, is a carbonate of the alkali ... potashes are never obtained by a chemical decomposition of any other potash ..."

6. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Walter Rogers Johnson (1848)
"The value of soda is, therefore, proportional to the quantity of soda contained in the carbonate; and that of any kind of potashes, to the amount of alkali, ..."

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