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Potash especially potassium carbonate was used in bleaching textiles, making glass & soap.
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Potash was mined in Ethiopia.
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It was suspected that potassium and sodium were different elements that combine with the same anions & made similar salts but it wasn’t proven.
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Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau proved the difference between potassium & sodium.
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Claude-Louis Berth discovered that when chlorine and potash mix a liquid bleach is created.
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Samuel Hopkins received a patent for an improvement “in the making of potash by a new apparatus and process.”
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J.B. Ritcher noticed that the combination of the acetate from lime and potash’s tartrate, form potassium acetate.
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Martin Klaproth discovered potash in the minerals leucite and lepidolite & discovered it wasn’t a product of plant growth but contained a new element & thought we should call them kali.
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Sir Humphry Davy discovered chemical combing was electrical in nature and he could use electricity to split substances into their basic chemical element.
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Sir Humphry Davy isolated potassium metal for the first time through electrolysis of potash at the Royal Institute.
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Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert said potassium should be called Kalium.
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Berzelius recommended using the symbol “K” to represent potassium.
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New potash sources found in Canada.
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Potash was found in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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The Potash Company of America was the first potash producer in Canada.