potassa
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of potassa
From New Latin, dating back to 1805–15; see origin at potass
Example Sentences
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Put five cents' worth of citrate of potassa in an ounce vial of clear cold water.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
Therefore potassa or chromic acid cannot be utilized, because of the impossibility of limiting their effect.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Carbonate of potassa, twenty grains; milk of almonds, three ounces; oil of sassafras, three drops.
From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by John H. Young
Give internally one of the following powders in the feed, night and morning: flowers of sulphur, two ounces; black antimony, one ounce; nitrate of potassa, one ounce; mix, and divide into eight powders.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings
There are springs bubbling and steeping and stagnating by the wayside; springs containing carbonates of soda, lithia, lime, magnesia, and iron; sulphates of potassa and soda, chloride of sodium and silica, in various solutions.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
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