potassa

American  

[puh-tas-uh] / pəˈtæs ə /

noun

Chemistry.

1. potash

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Etymology

Origin of potassa

From New Latin, dating back to 1805–15; potass

Example Sentences

There are springs bubbling and steeping and stagnating by the wayside; springs containing carbonates of soda, lithia, lime, magnesia, and iron; sulphates of potassa and soda, chloride of sodium and silica, in various solutions.

From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Stoddard, Charles Warren

Put five cents' worth of citrate of potassa in an ounce vial of clear cold water.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

For this purpose I have found the bicarbonate of potassa in solution, to which lemon-juice is added at the moment it is taken, so as to produce an extemporaneous effervescing draught, often an admirable remedy.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

A beautiful green fire may be thus made: Take of flour of sulphur, thirteen parts; nitrate of baryta, seventy-seven; oxy-muriate of potassa, five; metallic arsenic, two; and charcoal, three.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

It is the soda of our bread; the potassa of our ashes; the phosphorus of our bones and brain!

From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by Ridpath, John Clark