What's the difference between lime and potash?

Lime


Definition:

  • (n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
  • (n.) The linden tree. See Linden.
  • (n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
  • (n.) Birdlime.
  • (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
  • (v. t.) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
  • (v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.
  • (v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
  • (v. t.) To cement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In labelled acidic waters, the 26Al was present predominantly in low molecular weight forms, whereas in labelled limed waters the major fraction of 26Al was present in a high molecular weight form.
  • (2) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (3) When treated after exposure to ribonuclease, the colonies fluoresced lime-green.
  • (4) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
  • (5) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
  • (6) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
  • (7) Most obvious differences can be found for Cd: While the concentrations of soluble Cd in anaerobically digested sludge only increase at pH values lower than pH 4, the solubility of Cd in precipitation sludge and limed sludges already show rapid increases at pH values lower than 7.
  • (8) While it is still hot, juice the lime into a cup and stir in the granulated sugar (which will not dissolve completely).
  • (9) A solution – injecting the graves with a lime solution to speed up decomposition – was eventually discovered by a graveyard worker, who charged the Norwegian authorities $670 per plot.
  • (10) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
  • (11) 3 First squeeze lime juice over the fruit, then dip it into the flavoured salt.
  • (12) The frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) derived from exfoliated human oral mucosal cells has been measured to assess genotoxic damage in chewers of betel quid with tobacco (BQT) and tobacco with lime (T).
  • (13) This fruit possesses a taste-modifying substance that causes sour foods--e.g., lemons, limes, or grapefruit--to taste sweet.
  • (14) The results obtained in R. tigrina have been discussed in relation to the increased calcium deposits in the paravertebral lime sacs and to the possible enhanced secretion of the parathyroid glands.
  • (15) "I do a mean ceviche with it – coconut milk, lime juice and chilli.
  • (16) Lime Street was closed off by police as the demonstrations continued.
  • (17) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
  • (18) Grab a table if you're arriving late enough for the restaurant section to have emptied, and make the barman get his big grinder out by ordering a mandarinha – Beija-Flor cachaça, mandarin syrup, lime juice and black pepper.
  • (19) Once it's a deep golden colour all over, transfer to a dish and season with a squeeze of lime or lemon juice, coarse sea salt, plenty of hazelnut butter (the butter will need a good stir, because the solids will settle to the bottom) and a grind of black pepper.
  • (20) The amount of Ni extracted by ammonium acetate was reduced by 36% in the limed metal soil compared with the unlimed metal soil.

Potash


Definition:

  • (n.) The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.
  • (n.) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical, epidemiological and evolutive characteristics of interdigital and plantar intertrigo of the feet among people working in a coking plant, a potash mine and a motorcar factory.
  • (2) Fast "inactivation" of the potassium current is seen with patch pipettes fabricated from soft glass (soda glass or potash lead glass), and is probably caused by block of the potassium channels by di- or multivalent cations released from the glass.
  • (3) The prevalence of pleural calcification and pneumoconiosis in talc workers with 15 or more years of employment was higher than in potash miners.
  • (4) When rotary (drum) filters are used for phase splitting and rotary driers for drying the moist potash fertilizers the emission rate of chlorohydrogen lies between 300 and 1,000 mg m-3.
  • (5) The Palestinian economy could earn $918m (£571m), 9% of 2011 GDP, if minerals such as potash and bromine were harvested from the Dead Sea.
  • (6) The GCA RDM 101-1 has been evaluated using aerosols of coal, Arizona road dust, silica, potash, and rock (copper ore) particles.
  • (7) Symptoms were only slightly more prevalent in talc workers when compared to potash miners.
  • (8) From January 1986 through 1990, 70 children (42 boys, 28 girls) with esophageal stricture resulting from ingestion of caustic potash underwent simultaneous esophagectomy and colonic interposition utilizing the transhiatal esophageal approach.
  • (9) Danakali’s managing director Paul Donaldson said , “The Danakil region of East Africa is recognised as an emerging potash [potassium salts] province, and to date over 10bn tonnes of potassium bearing salts have been identified.” Online intelligence magazine Geeska Afrika explained : “Eritrea has many benefits it can offer potential investors.
  • (10) The mine, which sits on protected moorland overlooking Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay, aims to produce up to 20m tonnes a year of a potassium-rich mineral called polyhalite, a type of potash fertiliser described by Sirius as a “fertiliser of the future”.
  • (11) On the basis of investigations in the potash mining industry of GDR were formulated the starting conditions for experiments in a simulation chamber.
  • (12) Three commonly used fertilizers, urea, single superphosphate and muriate of potash, induced chromosome and chromatid breaks in the metaphase chromosomes of bone marrow cells of fertilizer-fed Swiss albino mice, Mus musculus.
  • (13) A small corner of one of Britain’s most stunning national parks will be dug up to make way for a £1.7bn potash mine after locals were wooed with promises of more than 1,000 jobs – and the idea of restoring the proud mining heritage of the north-east of England.
  • (14) Cells from hardened formalin-fixed human hearts were isolated with potash lye.
  • (15) Two examples are a potash mine in the North York Moors National Park, which is expected to create up to 2,000 jobs, and the new Hitachi plant in Newton Aycliffe constructing superfast trains, which aims to bring in 730 workers.
  • (16) The dispute followed the collapse this month of a Russia-Belarus sales cartel that controlled two-fifths of the $20bn global market for potash, an ingredient used in mineral fertilisers.
  • (17) The method was compared with Beohringer's method (n = 50) using hydrolysis of alcoholic potash.
  • (18) Derek Quinn, who has just retired after 34 years at North Yorkshire’s existing potash mine, in nearby Boulby, said: “From what I understand, I think it will be excellent for the area.
  • (19) After a four-year planning wrangle, members of the North York Moors National Park Authority were cheered on Tuesday when they narrowly gave the green light to UK firm Sirius Minerals – via its subsidiary York Potash – to dig a mile-deep shaft under heavily protected moorland overlooking Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay.
  • (20) The cutaneous sensitivity to benzalkonium chloride, sodium lauryl sulphate and potash soap was determined in 54 monozygotic and 46 dizygotic twin pairs.

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