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    potash
    [ noun ]
    a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry
    <noun.substance>


    Potash \Pot"ash`\, n. [Pot + ash.] (Chem.)
    (a) The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle
    substance, {KOH}, having strong caustic and alkaline
    properties; -- hence called also {caustic potash}.
    (b) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood
    ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white
    crystalline (pearlash).

    1. Other U.S. producers took similar actions in 1984 and 1985 against potash imports from Spain, East Germany, Israel and the Soviet Union, but they failed to obtain relief.
    2. The decision has been postponed for a short time because a west German has belatedly expressed interest in buying one of the potash mines in eastern Germany.
    3. These include direct investments in glass-making in Shanghai, a computer disc-drive venture in Harbin, and a proposed potash plant in far-west Qinghai province.
    4. It suggested a blast at Merkers potash mine on the East German side of the border caused a cave-in and shifting of underground rock formations that touched off the earthquake.
    5. Rio Algom produces potash, tin, uranium, copper, molybdenum and coal at mines in the U.S. and Canada.
    6. Mr. Genger first approached Fermenta officials in February about the possibility of buying the Swedish company's Cedar Chemical Corp. unit, a Memphis, Tenn., potash supplier, Fermenta officials said.
    7. About 30% of Canada's freight, including most grain, potash, sulfur and forest products, is shipped by rail.
    8. CP Rail officials say the project will have a significant impact on the ability to move export commodities such as grain, coal, sulphur and potash to the West Coast and the Pacific Rim.
    9. Just last week, the Commerce Department ruled that Canadian potash is being sold in the U.S. at unfairly low prices.
    10. Since then, it has blocked only one of 165 cases - the planned Franco-Italian takeover in 1991 of the Canadian aircraft-maker de Havilland. But 11 cases have reached the 'in-depth investigation' stage now opening for the German potash alliance.
    11. Many suspect a Wendover company's practice of draining brine from land adjacent to the flats to recover potash.
    12. Jake Fowler, president and chief operating officer, wouldn't say which assets might be sold. "We like the potash business very much, but our core business is uranium," he said.
    13. Production at a giant potash mine near Erfurt was paralyzed by striking workers demanding more pay and assurances they won't lose their jobs as East Germany goes through the painful process of adopting free-market principles.
    14. The company said assets of the division include three chemical processing facilities in Trona, Calif., that produce soda ash, sodium sulfate, potash and boron products.
    15. Six homes were leveled and five others damaged by freight cars and mounds of the sandy potash component.
    16. Investigators also interviewed workers who loaded the train with sandy sodium carbonate, which is used to make potash, in Rosamond, said Ted Lopatkiewicz, an NTSB spokesman.
    17. Charles Childers, president and chief executive officer of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, said he expects potash prices to increase considerably in the U.S. as a result of the preliminary finding.
    18. PPG said its potash business accounted for less than $100 million of the company's 1986 sales of $4.7 billion.
    19. Instead, I add a dressing of potash fertiliser and dig it lightly into the surface of the soil after planting.
    20. Six were destroyed, one had major damage and four had minor damage inflicted by the train, flying dirt and rocks from the roadbed and the potash, a mineral used in making fertilizer and soap.
    21. The best advice is to give them a strong potash feed, using sulphate of potash from early summer on. Often, nerines are planted under walls, although they do not need extreme protection.
    22. The best advice is to give them a strong potash feed, using sulphate of potash from early summer on. Often, nerines are planted under walls, although they do not need extreme protection.
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