Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A caustic white solid, KOH, used as a bleach and in the manufacture of soaps, dyes, alkaline batteries, and many potassium compounds. Also called caustic potash, lye, potash.
Wiktionary
- n. inorganic chemistry The alkaline base KOH, once known as caustic potash; it has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of bleach
WordNet 3.0
- n. a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
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