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The hydroxide of potassium hydrate a hard white brittle substance KOH having strong caustic and alkaline properties hence called also caustic potash...
Potashes
Potash...
Dovers Powder
A powder of ipecac and opium compounded in the United States with sugar of milk but in England as formerly in the United States with sulphate of potash and in France as in Dr Dovers original prescription with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice It is an anodyne diaphoretic...
Alkali works
Alkali works, The Acts regulating alkali works, 26 & 27 Vict. c. 120-a temporary Act, made perpetual by 31 & 32 Vict. c. 36-and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 43, were consolidated and amended by the alkali, etc., (English) Works Regulation Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 37), s. 29 of which defined 'alkali work' as 'every work for the manufacture of alkali, sulphate of soda, or sulphate of potash in which muriatic acid gas is evolved,' and recently after further amend-ment in 1892, again consolidated with additional amendments by the Alkali, etc., (English) Works Regulation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 14), by s. 27 of which the expression 'alkali work' means every work for-(a) the manufacture of sulphate of soda or sulphate of potash, or (b) the treatment of copper ores by common salt or other chlorides whereby any sulphate is formed, in which muriatic acid gas is evolved....
Blacksalter
One who makes crude potash or black salts...
Black salts
Crude potash...
Blanchimeter
An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash a chlorometer...
Bromoform
A colorless liquid CHBr3 having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit alcohol or acetone as also by certain other reactions In composition it is the same as chloroform with the substitution of bromine for chlorine It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects...
Calcar
A kind of oven or reverberatory furnace used for the calcination of sand and potash and converting them into frit...
Causticily
The quality of being caustic corrosiveness as the causticity of potash...
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