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- noun A gray-white powder having chemical properties of
quicklime made by heating mollusk shells to a temperature sufficient tocalcine it.
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Examples
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As soon as the ink is extracted, rinse the spot with pearl-ash water, and then with fair water.
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Strong pearl-ash water, mixed with sand, and rubbed on grease spots in floors, is one of the most effective things that can be used to extract the grease.
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Weak pearl-ash water is good to remove stains that are produced by acids.
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Put sufficient pearl-ash into hot water, to make it very strong of it; then saturate the paint which is daubed on the glass with it.
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Dip whatever is to be marked in strong pearl-ash water.
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-- Dry fullers 'earth so as to crumble it into powder, and moisten it well with lemon juice; add a quantity of pure pulverised pearl-ash, and work the whole up into a thick paste with a little water; roll it into small balls; let them completely dry in the sun, and they will be fit for use.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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Moisten a slice of wheat bread with sugar of lead, or pearl-ash water; bind it on, and keep wetting it as it becomes dry.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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Cut up three pounds of country bard soap into three pints of strong ley; simmer it over the fire until the soap is dissolved, and add to it three ounces of pearl-ash, pour it into a stone jar, and stir in half a pint of spirits of turpentine, and a gill of spirits of hartshorn, cover the jar tight, and tie a cloth over it.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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Dissolve in an iron kettle, one part of pearl-ash in about 8 parts of water; add one part of shell-lac, and heat the whole to ebullition.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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Rinse them, when the ink is extracted, with strong pearl-ash water.
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