caustic potash

The name was also applied to caustic potash.

The solution he prepared exploded, splattering caustic potash into his eyes and blinding him.

They are heated and mixed with caustic potash or caustic soda.

It can also be produced by passing chlorine gas into a hot solution of caustic potash:

To absorb it, it was necessary to fill some jars with caustic potash, and to shake them incessantly.

The reaction works best in isopropanol if potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) is added.

Potassium derives its name from potash, and was first derived by electrolysis of caustic potash, in 1808.

The same product can be obtained by using other oxidizing agents such as potassium ferricyanide and concentrated caustic potash solution.

Potassium - isolated from caustic potash by Humphry Davy in 1807 using electrolysis.

Potassium hydroxide (commonly called "caustic potash")

It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions.

A sufficient quantity of chlorate of potassium and of caustic potash was placed at his disposal, together with provisions for eight days.

The container that caught fire contained 14 tons of activated carbon pellets impregnated with potassium hydroxide (caustic potash).

Potassium was discovered in 1807 by Davy, who derived it from caustic potash (KOH).

Potash, or caustic potash, is the old name for potassium hydroxide (KOH).

Potassium Hydroxide (Caustic Potash)

A mixture of tallow and other fats was saponified by caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) in industrial methylated spirits.

Potassium hydroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula KOH, commonly called caustic potash.

Filtering off the precipitated calcium carbonate and boiling down the solution gives potassium hydroxide ("calcinated or caustic potash").

Sulfuric and nitric acids can dissolve aluminum oxide, as can alkalis such as lye or caustic potash.

This prototype of closed-circuit scuba uses rope soaked in caustic potash to absorb carbon dioxide so the exhaled gas can be re-breathed.

His final patent, taken out in 1863, for improvements in the manufacture of caustic soda and caustic potash, seems never to have gone beyond the experimental stage.

Potassium hydroxide can be indirectly made from wood ash by the addition of calcium hydroxide, and in this form is known as caustic potash or lye.

Caustic potash, produced in membrane electrochemical cells developed by ICI, is being sold now as a higher value-added effect alkali.

Other products manufactured by the company include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride.