potash
po tash
- n a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry
- Factories are being built almost as fast as Bedouins pitch tents, turning out practically everything from potash byproducts on the Dead Sea to Surf detergent near Amman.
- There are no substitutes for potash or iodine.
- Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly.