pearlash
/purl-ash/US // ˈpɜrlˌæʃ //
睫毛膏,睫毛,睫毛膏的作用
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : commercial potassium carbonate.
Examples
Thousands of wagon loads of pure saleratus and pearlash could be got here.
If any kind of acid be taken, in poisonous quantities, give strong pearlash-water.
Be careful to drain them well, and not to let any gilding, or bronze, be injured by the pearlash-water coming in contact with it.
It is a rule never to use pearlash for Indian, unless to correct the sourness of milk; it injures the flavor of the meal.
The potash should be purified from the best pearlash; and the borax should be refined by one or two crystallizations.
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