Definitions for Potash

Potash pot·ash

Spelling: [pot-ash]
IPA: /ˈpɒtˌæʃ/

Potash is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in Potash (ahopst).

Definitions for Potash

noun

  1. potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
  2. potassium hydroxide.
  3. the oxide of potassium, K 2 O.
  4. potassium, as carbonate of potash.

Origin of Potash

1615-25; back formation from plural pot-ashes, translation of early Dutch potasschen. See pot1, ash1

Examples for Potash

When nitre is burned with sulphur, the product is sulphate of potash, etc.

This composition is simply a mixture of phosphorus, glue, and chlorate of potash.

We use a kind of potash soap which we are sure is of the best make.

potash is obtained in Germany, where it is found in several forms.

The object of Mason was to carry on the manufacture of potash.

The most important are carbonate of soda, potash, and cyanide of potassium.

Crystals of iodine as opposed to permanganate of potash for antiseptic he discussed.

Nitre, or "nitrate," is a native nitrate of potash, or nitrate of soda.

They knew also how to combine mercury, sulphur and potash to produce vermilion.

They dye good but fugitive red with bichromate of potash, or alum.

Word Value for Potash
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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