n a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
By potash people mean potassium, a, metal absolutely essential to plant life.
Then, exhorted by their leader, intimidated by armed guards and lulled with sedatives and painkillers, parents and nurses used syringes to squirt a concoction of potassium .
Potassium, a body salt that affects the electrical conductivity of the heart, is essential to controlling cardiac rhythm.
Understanding the heart's rhythm Scientists have discovered a previously unidentified potassium channel in cardiac cells that regulate the human heartbeat. This could be a significant step towards developing "biological pacemakers" to replace today's mechanical pacemakers, the researcher says.
June 11, 2013 - Science Daily
Orocobre Completes Long-Term Pump Testing at the Cangrejillos/Salinas Grandes Potash-Lithium Project Highlights - Long-term pump testing completed on five test-production wells. - Pump testing shows that brine volumes can be extracted from wells from the shallow potassium-lithium resource at a sufficient rate and concentration to support modest potash and lithium production. - Brine grades stabilized during the pumping tests with some variation in average grade between holes. - Test work since ...
June 11, 2013 - Marketwire
Marshall Brain in Sun-Sentinel Sodium, chloride, potassium and water -- that's [mostly] what is coming out in sweat,said Marshall Brain, the founder of the website howstuffworks.com. "There isn't some magic sweat gland filtering out toxins through the skin."
Phil Jackson in ESPN We're aware that he's sweating a lot -- low potassium here in Hawaii. He's got to eat more bananas,Jackson said.
Jack Kevorkian in WJZ He's dying now, because his oxygen's cut off. He can't breathe,Kevorkian explained. "So now, I'll quickly inject the potassium chloride to stop the heart."