Definitions for potashes

potashes pot·ash

Spelling: [pot-ash]
IPA: /ˈpɒtˌæʃ/

Potashes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in potashes (aehopsst).

Definitions for potashes

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 potashes

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

Examples for potashes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Word Value for potashes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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