Fontana, toward the end of the eighteenth century, was sure that he had discovered in caustic potash an absolute specific for snake poisoning.
Not only was it efficacious, then, if taken while the opium was still in the stomach but, just as with Fontana's caustic potash and the snake venom, it followed the opium into the tissues and at least blunted its action.
A mass of crystals of permanganate of potash as big as a pea may be administered in a glass of water, if this substance be at hand.
Another means of separation was tried by precipitating the calcium salts, from a solution of the potash soap.
Thus it would seem that soda holds the scales evenly between potash and magnesia in this medical sense, and that it is weighed, so to speak, on either side by the kind of mineral acid with which it may be combined.
At this time he appears to have settled near St. John’s, carrying on not only large farming operations but owning sawmills, a potash house and a forge.
An elegant Custom House on the Pointe replaces an oldpotash store.
If it is thought to be absolutely necessary that the sheets of a book should be washed, the safest method is as follows:--Take an ounce of permanganate of potash dissolved in a quart of water, and warmed slightly.
A weak solution of permanganate of potashgives a yellowish stain that will be found to match many papers.
A mixture of chlorate of potash and white sugar surrounds the tube and holds it in position; c is a primer filled with mealed powder in connection with the charge of the mine.
Bastian to obtain, in the presence of competent judges, the result to which I have referred with sterile urine, on the sole condition that the solution of potash which he employs be pure, i.
Bastian's position was "that a solution of boiled potash caused bacteria to appear in sterile urine at fifty degrees Cent.
Zack's Yankee brain had a scheme for utilizing the ashes, if only he had machinery big enough for converting all into potashand pearlash.
I'll jest bring up the potash kettle on the sled a Monday, an' we'll spill the trees.
Of that you may be sure,' rejoined Sam Holt; 'currency here lies more in potash or flour, just as they have salt in Abyssinia.
As to the potash business, sir, I fear it is too complicated and expensive to venture upon this year, though the creek is an excellent site for an ashery, and they say the manufacture is highly remunerating.
Take it out in potash or maple sugar next spring--eh?
Made into potash these would fetch a little ready money, hardly to be obtained in those early days for any other commodity.
The consensus of fertilizer experiments suggests that potash is less important on most soils than phosphorus and nitrogen but that if these elements are in good supply, increased yields from potash are likely.
Effect of potash fertilizer on the carrying quality of tomatoes.
The dominant element in most sound tomato fertility programs is phosphorus with nitrogen second and potash third.
Potash The potash requirement of the tomato has not been as thoroughly studied as the requirement for the other two major elements.
Lanham in Texas was unable to find a relation between potash fertilization and resistance to shipping hazards.
It is thought that potash has a part in building up sugars into more complex carbohydrates.
I experimented for three years before I got just the right quantity of chloride of sodium solution and caustic potash mixture to curdle properly.
A dilute solution of bichromate of potash is frequently employed to darken oak, mahogany, and coloured woods.
The term flint-glass is now understood to mean a glass composed of the silicates of potash and lead.
He established works in Crutched Friars, and to him is probably due the introduction of the use of soda-ash, made from seaweed and seaside plants, in place of the crude potash made from fern and wood ashes.
The invention, if it may be regarded as one, consisted in eliminating lime from the glass mixture, substituting refined potash for soda, and using a very large proportion of lead oxide.
A sufficient quantity of chlorate of potassium and of caustic potashwas placed at his disposal, together with provisions for eight days.
Caustic potash has a great affinity for carbonic acid; and it is sufficient to shake it in order for it to seize upon the acid and form bi-carbonate of potass.
By extracting the wood ashes with hot water, and evaporating the clear solution to dryness, potash could be obtained, which was considerably stronger than the original ashes.
Spotted white effects can be produced on the brown dyeing with permanganate of potash by applying a solution of sodium bisulphite, the brown color being dissolved by this chemical.
Chlorates, especially sodium chlorate and potassium chlorate, are the most commonly employed oxidizing agents, bichromate of soda or of potash being used, in addition, to complete the oxidation.
I told the boys before that potash was good for seed and fruit.
The wood ash adds a little extra potashwhich is very good for the strawberry.
A strong solution of permanganate of potash put on with a brush will darken any wood; it has no fumes.
The foods that are necessary and essential to plants and most likely to be lacking in the soil are nitrogen, potash and phosphorus.
One may buypotash in the form of the muriate or sulphate.
This food is nitrogen in various forms, potashand phosphorus.
The late experiments of Mr. Crosse seemed to show that insects were produced in silicate of potash under a long-continued action of voltaic electricity.
Under ordinary circumstances, picrate of potash although not MORE inflam- mable than common powder, yet possesses the SAME degree of inflammability.
In the case of the larger moths and beetles death may be instantaneously induced by injecting a solution of cyanide of potash with a hypodermic syringe.
Subcarbonate of potash 6 " Alcohol 8 " Directions: The soap should be the best quality of laundry soap, and of such composition that it can be reduced with water to any degree of thinness.
Cyanide of potash wedged into place with soft paper; P, perforated paper disc.
Raw material resources are limited to potash and peat deposits.
The Prussians will seize it now; but we should be willing to meet all the Prussian fury if we could discoverpotash in Norway!
When he heard that supplies of potash had been discovered in Spain, a distinguished Norwegian said: 'Poor Spain!
It's iron ore and potash in Alsace-Lorraine that the emperor cares about.
It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions.
Put it to soak in a solution of one dram of bichromate of potash in a pint of water.
Lavas contain both silica and the alkalies, potash and soda, and after dissolving the alkalies, percolating water is able to take silica also into solution.
In granite regions they contain more or less soda and potash from the decay of feldspar.
These carbonates are freely soluble and contribute potash and soda to soils and river waters.
The use of potash salts, on most soils, is probably not needed when good dung is freely used; but where this is not the case it is safer in most seasons and on most soils to give a dressing of potash salts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
