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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the manufacture of prussiate of potash (see prussiate) on a large scale, the salt obtained from the residual mother-liquor, which, after the lixiviation of the calcined cake, the second crystallization, and second concentration, yet contains about 70 per cent. of potassium carbonate.

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