barilla
Americannoun
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barillas
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either of two European saltworts, Salsola kali or S. soda, whose ashes yield an impure carbonate of soda.
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the alkali obtained from the ashes of these and certain other maritime plants.
noun
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an impure mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium sulphate obtained from the ashes of certain plants, such as the saltworts
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either of two chenopodiaceous plants, Salsola kali (or soda ) or Halogeton soda , formerly burned to obtain a form of sodium carbonate See also saltwort
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Etymology
Origin of barilla
1615–25; < Spanish barrilla, apparently equivalent to bar ( ra ) bar 1 + -illa diminutive suffix
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The Upper "Beneficios" Village of Ichmul 7 15 39 66,680 Sugar, molasses, rum, tobacco of good quality, rice, laces, pepper, gum copal, sarsaparilla, hats, hammocks, ebony, barilla, gypsum, and skins.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
From Carthagena we were sent down the coast to a little place called Aguilas, where we began to take in a cargo of barilla.
From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by James Fenimore Cooper
A chemist, Leblanc, in 1791 invented a new process by which sodium carbonate could be obtained from common salt, and this entirely superseded barilla.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
Wines, brandies, quicksilver, barilla, are exclusive of duty, for example; the others, duty paid, but in some instances duties scarcely more than nominal.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
During the Napoleonic wars the price of barilla rose to such a height that Napoleon offered a reward for the discovery of a process for the manufacture of sodium carbonate.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
Two maids of honour, bearing decorated barillas of choice wine from the royal cellars, rode on either side of their mistress.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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