Vocabulary : Potamospongiae to Potation

Potamospongiae : The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.
Potance : The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
Potargo : A kind of sauce or pickle.
Potash : The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash. ;; The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).
Potashes : Potash.

Potassa : Potassium oxide. ;; Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.
Potassamide : A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.
Potassium : An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).
Potassoxyl : The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.
Potation : The act of drinking. ;; A draught. ;; Drink; beverage.

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