pearlash

[ purl-ash ]

noun
  1. commercial potassium carbonate.

Origin of pearlash

1
First recorded in 1720–30; pearl + ash1

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How to use pearlash in a sentence

  • The next year a similar patent was granted to James Rogers for the manufacture of pearl-ash.

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  • Melt a tea-spoonful of sal aratus or fine pearl-ash in a little sour milk, and stir it in at the last.

  • It assimilates best with purified pearl ash, on account of the freedom of this alkali from iron, which is present in most sodas.

  • When perfectly dry, iron it very smooth; the pearl-ash water turns it a dark color, but washing will efface it.

  • As soon as the ink is extracted, rinse the spot with pearl-ash water, and then with fair water.

British Dictionary definitions for pearl ash

pearl ash

noun
  1. the granular crystalline form of potassium carbonate

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