Sentence examples for caustic potash from inspiring English sources
The names caustic potash, potassa, and lye are frequently used for potassium hydroxide (see potassium).
Soap may also be manufactured with potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) as the alkali.
He also found that clay is deposited less quickly in acid solutions than in solutions of salts, and more rapidly in a solution of caustic soda than in one of caustic potash.
An important application of cadmium is its use as the anode with either nickel or silver oxide as the cathode and a caustic potash electrolyte in rechargeable electrical storage batteries for uses in which lower weight, longer life, and stability upon storage in discharged condition are desirable as in aircraft.
Liebig burned an organic compound with copper oxide and identified the oxidation products (water vapour and carbon dioxide) by weighing them, directly after absorption, in a tube of calcium chloride and in a specially designed five-bulb apparatus containing caustic potash.
Another, rather beautiful experiment was boiling phosphorus with caustic potash in a retort — I was remarkably nonchalant in boiling up such virulent substances; lucky, too, in that I never really hurt myself — and this produced phosphoretted hydrogen (the old term), or phosphine.
The mercury cell chlor-alkali manufacturing plants still in operation in the US use approximately 80 tons of mercury every year to manufacture the chlor-alkali products caustic soda, chlorine, potash, and hydrochloric acid [ 26].
Bichromate of potash, iron salts, ammonia and caustic soda are chemicals most often used to color wood.
I remember permanganate of potash.
DISINGENUOUS and caustic, yes.
