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Definition of Pearl ash
1. Noun. An impure form of potassium carbonate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearl Ash
Literary usage of Pearl ash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1904)
"An Act for granting a Bounty on the Exportation of Pot and pearl ash. I.
Whereas pot and pearl ash may be made in this Province to great Advantage, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"... ashes much more salt than woods; ¡.ml tint consequently, ns to salts of the
vegetable alkali kind, as potash, pearl ash, ca- sbup, be. neither America, ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1845)
"Pot Ash as well as pearl ash vary in quality as well as in per cent ot free ...
Pot Ash is termed a caustic Alkali, and pearl ash a mild Alkali—both are ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"Pot Ash as well as pearl ash vary in quality as well as in per cent of free ...
Pot Asb is termed a caustic Alkali, and pearl ash a mild Alkali—both are ..."
5. Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or by Ferdinand Jacob H. Mueller (1880)
"One ton of the fresh foliage of E. globulus yields about 8 4 lbs. of pearl ash,
a ton of the green wood about 2£ lbs., of dry wood about <H lbs. ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The crude pearl ash thus obtained may be purified by heating and then ...
Ordinary pearl ash is used principally, however, in the manufacture of soap. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"Refining of Pearl-ash.—In America the pearl-ash is sometimes redissolved, ...
The pearl-ash thus produced is of first-rate quality, and very much liked in ..."
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