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Potassa   Listen
noun
Potassa  n.  (Chem.)
(a)
Potassium oxide. (Obs.)
(b)
Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.





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... in answer to a previous Query, that "nitrate of potassa" is not formed in his process. Now I wish to ask if (as the iodide of silver is redissolved in iodide of potassium) it is not formed when the plate is plunged into the nitrate silver bath, as the nitrate decomposes the ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 • Various


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