pearl ash in English
noun
1
commercial potassium carbonate.
The first type, invented in the USA in 1790, was ‘ pearl ash ’, potassium carbonate prepared from wood ash.
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1. The mob then daubed Edward and Charles from head to foot with hot tar containing pearl ash, a flesh-eating acid, and then they threw feathers that stuck to the burning tar.19