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potash

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pot=ash

CIDE DICTIONARY

potashn. [Pot + ash.].
     The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

potash, n. an alkaline potassium compound, usu. potassium carbonate or hydroxide.

Etymology
17th-c. pot-ashes f. Du. pot-asschen (as POT(1), ASH(1)): orig. obtained by leaching vegetable ashes and evaporating the solution in iron pots

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