pearlash

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Examples

• Thousands of wagon loads of pure saleratus and pearlash could be got here.

• If any kind of acid be taken, in poisonous quantities, give strong pearlash-water.

• Be careful to drain them well, and not to let any gilding, or bronze, be injured by the pearlash-water coming in contact with it.

• It is a rule never to use pearlash for Indian, unless to correct the sourness of milk; it injures the flavor of the meal.

• The potash should be purified from the best pearlash; and the borax should be refined by one or two crystallizations.