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caustic potash

[′kȯ·stik ′päd‚ash]
(inorganic chemistry)
potassium hydroxide
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Caustic potash finds application in the manufacturing of numerous products ranging from food additives to soaps and detergents, and agrochemicals to alkaline batteries.
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The overall project cost is put at $2,500 million, and covers the possible construction of group 1 plants for soda ash, fertilizer-grade phosphoric acid and potassium sulphate by 1995; group 2 plants for magnesium metal, magnesium oxide, technical grade phosphoric acid, dicalcium phosphate and sodium tripolyphosphate; and group 3 plants for potassium nitrate, elemental chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash, chlorine derivatives, bromine and bromine derivatives before the end of the century.
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IN MERSEY | In the Mersey today, Stolt Seagull, a chemical tanker carrying caustic potash liquid from Belgium.
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The youngster underwent emergency surgery in hospital and had to have part of his stomach and his gullet removed because they had been badly burned by the caustic potash in the plant food.
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