pearlash
commercial potassium carbonate.
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How to use pearlash in a sentence
Thousands of wagon loads of pure saleratus and pearlash could be got here.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 | E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) IngallsIf any kind of acid be taken, in poisonous quantities, give strong pearlash-water.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy | Catherine Esther BeecherBe careful to drain them well, and not to let any gilding, or bronze, be injured by the pearlash-water coming in contact with it.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy | Catherine Esther BeecherIt is a rule never to use pearlash for Indian, unless to correct the sourness of milk; it injures the flavor of the meal.
The American Frugal Housewife | Lydia M. ChildThe potash should be purified from the best pearlash; and the borax should be refined by one or two crystallizations.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure
British Dictionary definitions for pearl ash
the granular crystalline form of potassium carbonate
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