How to Use potash in a Sentence

potash

noun
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  • The price tags for everything from potash to wheat to soy took off.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 May 2022
  • The process requires separating out the salt from the potash.
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2019
  • One and three-quarters years later, that potash remains in the ground.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2019
  • That was already half the Russian potash that arrived in Brazil in June 2021.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • The term potash is derived from the first way the potassium was extracted.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Since the start of Russia’s invasion, potash prices have soared by 50 percent.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • More than 50 years ago, the BLM made deals with mining companies that use the land to get potash, a fertilizer.
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Yuri Korzun had a job for life at Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest miners of potash fertilizer.
    — WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Copper revenues account for about 35% of the total, followed by potash at 21%.
    — Moneyshow, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The first known recipe for soap calls for approximately one quart of oil and six quarts of potash (potassium leeched from wood ash).
    — Cody Cassidy, Time, 5 May 2020
  • Russia, the world’s largest exporter of fertilisers, accounts for around 20% of the global supplies of potash.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Pearl ash, made by baking potash in a kiln, was used as a leavening agent in breads before the creation of baking powder.
    — Renae Reints, Fortune, 20 June 2018
  • Potassium alum, or potash, a mineral found in the mountains around Oaxaca, is used as a mordant, holding the dye to the yarn.
    — Erica Goode, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Further, its sales volumes were down 7% and 33% y-o-y in April for the potash and phosphate segments, respectively.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • The phase-in period was designed to allow companies time to find other sources of potash and end trade with Belaruskali.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The early closure of a major potash mine in Canada this year disrupted supplies as well.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The factory, which accounts for a fifth of the world’s potash fertilizer output, is the nation’s top cash earner.
    — Yuras Karmanau, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Nutrien is the world’s largest corporate producer of potash.
    — Jacquie McNish and Vipal Monga, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But retrieving Michigan's potash will take a huge amount of groundwater.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The company intends to mine about 1 million tons of potash per year from the Evart Township facility.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Since 2020, nitrogen fertilizer prices have risen four-fold, while phosphate and potash prices have climbed more than three-fold.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Russia and Belarus, under sanctions in the wake of the invasion, account for 40 percent of the crop nutrient potash.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 28 May 2022
  • Feed potted fruit trees every two weeks from blossom time to mid-autumn with a high-potash feed such as liquid seaweed and keep them well watered.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2017
  • These included plans to develop a massive potash mine that would straddle the border.
    — Martin Plaut, Quartz Africa, 9 July 2019
  • In China, the price of potash – potassium-rich salt used as fertilizer – is up 86% from a year earlier.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2022
  • In China, the price of potash — potassium-rich salt used as fertilizer — is up 86% from a year earlier.
    — Geoffrey Kaviti, Chinedu Asadu and Paul Wiseman, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Haifa was founded in 1966 to try to capitalize on Israel’s natural resources of potash from the Dead Sea and phosphates in the Negev region.
    — Ben Dummett, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Canada is a major producer of potash, and the railway transports the bulk of the commodity to ships destined for foreign buyers.
    — Jacquie McNish, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Reflecting the decline in fortune of the potash industry, the $36 billion value of the merged companies is well below the $39 billion BHP proposed to pay for Potash alone.
    — Leslie Picker and Ian Austen, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2016
  • Workers at the Belaruskali factory, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's potash fertilizer output and is the nation's top cash earner, launched a strike last month.
    — Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020

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