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potash
1. For example, a 5-10-20 fertilizer would have 5% Nitrate, 10% Phosphate, and 20% Potash
2. "What ought the Little One to have had more of?" asked Herr Dremmel; for his thoughts had not much time to spare, and he profitably employed them while she talked in working out the probable results of, say, the treatment of three acres of sugar-beet with sulphate of potash, sulphate of ammonia, and nitrate of soda respectively, all of them receiving 400 lbs
3. Till he came out the singing went on; and suppose, thought the Baroness, he were to forget to come out? Once he had forgotten, she had heard, and had stayed in his box, having very unfortunately been visited there by a revelation concerning potash that caught him up into oblivion for the best part of an hour, during which the chorale was gone through with an increasing faintness fifteen times
4. She knew about the hour, but did not know it was potash
5. Just on this morning he was profoundly concerned with the function of potash in the formation of carbohydrates
6. He had sat up late--long after Ingeborg, feeling as if she were dissolved in stars and happily certain that Robert felt just as liquidly starry, had gone to bed--considering potash
7. She was not across the passage into their bedroom before his mind had sprung back to potash
8. That’s right: cutting down one elm tree and burning the scraps and branches of that one dead tree gave the pioneers enough potash to buy 2 more acres of land
9. The more trees they cut down and burn: the more potash they can sell to buy more acres of land, more living trees to cut down and kill: A vicious cycle of systematically spreading death and destruction
10. And from the sleeves of her red jacket looked out two large hands with knotty joints, the dust of barns, the potash of washing the grease of wools had so encrusted, roughened, hardened these that they seemed dirty, although they had been rinsed in clear water; and by dint of long service they remained half open, as if to bear humble witness for themselves of so much suffering endured
11. Her last champion of any standing was now a pinch of potash in the ruins of still-smoking Ankh-Morpork
12. This next example of Potash (Figure 4
13. The last portion of this chapter deals with my ideas as to why stocks move up at such rapid speeds, such as Potash did
14. This chart simply tells us that institutional money has moved into these stocks over the past year, which is a primary reason that a stock such as Potash has done so well
15. Knowing that Potash is one of the stocks within this group and trading at about $200 per share, it will drop in value at least $100 per share when the large investors take their profits and sell the stocks within this group
16. Syngenta happens to be the number one holding in the ETF, making up 8 percent of the allocation, followed by fertilizer company Potash (NYSE: POT), also at 8 percent
17. 12: Does the amount of potash in the soil affect the strength of fibers made of cotton grown in that soil? Consider the data in the following table:
18. Potash topped when its current quarter was up 181% and its next quarter was up 220%
19. Potassium-based fertilizers are created from potash (potassium chloride) and help to increase water retention and improve disease resistance in crops
20. Potash, a pinky, crystal-like substance, is mined from evaporated underground salt lakes
21. Standing by the exposed ore body, I was taken by how massive the potash seams were and the relative ease with which I could break pieces off
22. The same honorable gentleman was also pleased to speak of "a paltry trade in potash and codfish," and to refer to me as the Representative of men who raised "beef and pork, and butter and cheese, and potatoes and cabbages
23. By another decree of the 12th September, 1810, potash is taxed at one dollar twenty-five cents, codfish two dollars, rice four dollars per hundred—thus are we loved, favored, and taxed
24. It is generally known that the earth in these caves contains the nitrates of lime, and potash, and other salts
25. The numerous caves which have been found in the Cumberland mountains and other parts of Tennessee, have been very productive of the nitrate of potash
26. It was obtained from nitrate of potash, (saltpetre,) not because it was the best process, but because the substance could be obtained in the place, and because a common fire would serve for its extrication
27. To the filtered solution, reduced by evaporation, carbonate of potash was added, the precipitate was collected on a filter, washed and dried; it weighed 23 parts
28. This powder was redissolved in sulphuric acid, sulphate of potash added, and crystals of alum finally obtained; hence this powder was alumine
29. The sides of the principal excavation present a few apartments which are interesting, principally because they furnish large quantities of the earth from which the nitrate of potash is obtained
30. The earth is thrown into a hopper, and the fluid obtained, passed through another of ashes, the alkali of which decomposes the earthy nitrate, and uniting with its acid, which contains chiefly nitrate of lime, turns it into nitrate of potash
31. The chief difference between this and the adularia is, that one contains fourteen potash and the other nine soda
32. The filters on which the white oxyd had been deposited, burned almost with explosion, nearly as rapidly as if they had been soaked with nitrate of potash, or of ammonia, and the characteristic blue flame appeared while the burning lasted
33. 18, was fused into a globule, while the evolution of potassium was demonstrated by a rose-coloured flame arising from some potash which had been placed between the poles
34. [81] If a connecting iron wire, while in combustion, be touched by the hydrate of potash, the evolution of potassium is demonstrated by a rose-coloured flame
35. But the best mode of application is by means of a tray made by doubling a slip of sheet iron at the ends, and leaving a receptacle in the centre, in which the potash may be placed covered with filings
36. I have ascertained that an iron heated to combustion, by a blacksmith's forge fire, will cause the decomposition of the hydrate of potash
37. This was redissolved in a small quantity of pure rain water, and prussiate of potash added to it, without occasioning any precipitate
38. Chromate of potash, to test the purity of, S
39. — and potash, sulphate of, xx, 195
40. A preparation of the phosphates of lime, magnesia, potash and iron with phosphoric acid in such form as to be readily assimilated by the system
