potash
/ˈpɒt.æʃ//ˈpɑt.æʃ/
potash noun: the water-soluble part of wood ash, used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer (chemically speaking, an impure form of potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃) mixed with other potassium salts).
Noun
potash (countable and uncountable, plural potashes)
- The water-soluble part of wood ash, used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer (chemically speaking, an impure form of potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃) mixed with other potassium salts).
- Potassium. Chiefly used in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash".
- permanganate of potash
- A class of potassium minerals, of similar applicability to potassium carbonate, such as being a fertilizer. (ie. potassium chloride, potassium hydroxide)
Verb
potash (third-person singular simple present potashes, present participle potashing, simple past and past participle potashed)
- To treat with potassium.
- In order to ascertain the difference between the rapidity of pickling when the tin frames had been potashed and pickling without such treatment, two batches were used.1910, Platers' Guide: With which is Combined Brass World
- Gold ornaments are sand blasted or steel brushed nicely, then potashed,1915, Metal Finishing: Preparation, Electroplating, Coating
Proper noun capitalized: Potash
Potash (plural Potashes)
- A surname.
potash meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Tagalog and Arabic
potash in Tamil
- பொற்றாசு, சாம்பல் சத்து
potash in Malayalam
- ചാമ്പലുപ്പ്, ചാരക്കാരം, ചാമ്പൽക്കാരം, ഒരു ക്ഷാരവസ്തു
potash in Tagalog
- pot ash: the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer
- potasa
potash in Arabic
- chemistry: an impure form of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) mixed with other potassium salts
- قِلْو qilw, قِلْي qily, أُشْنَان ʔušnān, بُوتَاس būtās
- pot ash: the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer
- قِلْو qilw, قِلْي qily, أُشْنَان ʔušnān, بُوتَاس būtās
More languagesFewer languages
- potash in Indonesian
- potas
- potash in Persian
- شخار šaxār
- potash in Thai
- โพแทช poh tâet
- potash in Myanmar
- ပြဆား pra.hca:, ပိုတက် puitak
Examples of potash in a sentence
- After removal from a worker bee they should be potashed in ten percent potassium hydroxide, washed, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted.1953, Nature Magazine, page 223:
- For the extraction of the internal sclerites the aedeagus was potashed in cold saturated KOH solution for several hours and transferred to a vial of distilled water.2003, Senckenbergiana biologica, page 136:
Forms of potash
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | potashes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | potashes |
| present participle | potashing |
| past participle | potashed |
| past | potashed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Potashes |
Origin of potash
From pot + ash, because the substance was originally obtained by leaching ash in water and then boiling down the resulting solution in a pot. Compare Dutch potas, German Pottasche.
Words formed from potash
- acetate of potash
- carbonate of potash
- caustic potash
- chlorate of potash
- chromate of potash
- citrate of potash
- iridiate of potash
- manganate of potash
- muriate of potash
- nitrate of potash
- nitre of potash
- osmiate of potash
- oxygenated muriate of potash
- permanganate of potash
- plumbate of potash
- potash alum
- potash bentonite
- potash blue
- potashery
- potash-feldspar
- potash-felspar
- potash-granite
- potash greensand
- potash kettle
- potash-lime
- potash lye
- potash-mica
- potash of sulfur
- potash of sulphur
- potash-water
- potash water
- silicate of potash
- stannate of potash
- stannite of potash
- sulfate of potash
- sulphate of potash
- sulfurated potash
- sulphurated potash
Phrases with potash
Words that rhyme with potash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- gnash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about potash
- What does potash mean?
- Potash means the water-soluble part of wood ash, used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer (chemically speaking, an impure form of potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃) mixed with other potassium salts).
- What is potash in Tamil?
- Potash in Tamil is பொற்றாசு, சாம்பல் சத்து. See Potash meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use potash in a sentence?
- After removal from a worker bee they should be potashed in ten percent potassium hydroxide, washed, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted.
- What part of speech is potash?
- Potash can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce potash?
- Potash is pronounced /ˈpɒt.æʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of potash?
- The plural of potash is potashes.
Words near potash in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: potash (page history and authors); Potash (page history and authors); potash (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); potash (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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