We use the best potash soap in washing the wool.

我们用最好的碳酸皂洗羊毛。

When the first flowers show, give the plants some potash fertilizer.

开出第一朵花时，给植株施上肥。

Chlorate of potash is got in the form of white crystals.

氯酸呈现白色水晶状。

Perhaps you have had to suck some chlorate of potash lozenges when you had a sore throat.

也许你曾经就因为喉咙疼痛而服用过氯酸。

Local factories also use the water to get minerals -- potash, bromine, sodium chloride, and magnesium chloride, among others.

当地的工厂也利用水来获取矿物质——肥、溴、氯化钠和氯化镁等。

Scientists largely agree that years of aquifer use by nearby potash mining has been one cause behind the problem.

科学家普遍认为，附近的矿多来一直在开采含水，造成一问题的原因之一。

Fertiliser shortages are even harder to cover: new potash mines take 5-10 years to build.

新的肥矿需要5-10才能建成。

Potash was also used to make glass.

也被用来制造玻璃。

It was for an improved process for making potash.

为了改进肥的制造工艺。

That should give you an idea of how important potash was.

应该能让你了解肥的重要性。

The Dutch bank Rabobank said 40 percent of the world's supply of potash, or potassium chloride, comes from Russia and Belarus.

荷兰作银行表示，全球40%的碳酸或氯化都由俄罗斯和白俄罗斯供应。

Glass is mostly sand, silicon dioxide, but add some potash and you reduce the melting point.

玻璃主要沙子、二氧化硅、 但添加一些 就会降低熔点。

Take some animal fat, add potash, and a chemical reaction creates a primitive liquid soap.

取一些动物脂肪，加入， 化学反应产生了原始的液体肥皂。

The patent office has now issued over 10 million patents and the literal first one is for potash.

专利局目前已颁发了超过 1000 万项专利 而实际上第一个专利有关肥的。

Besides BHP's investments in copper and, to a lesser extent, nickel and potash, it has kept its purse-strings tight.

除必和必拓在铜和镍及肥方面的投资（投资规模较小）外，该公司一直紧缩财政。

In 1807, British scientist Humphry Davy got some damp potash and put electrodes into it.

1807 ， 英国科学家汉弗莱·戴维 (Humphry Davy) 获得了一些潮湿的碱 并将电极放入其中。

Germany established a near monopoly in the potash supply.

德国几乎垄断了肥供应。

Unfortunately, it required a huge amount of lumber to create just a small quantity of potash.

不幸的，它需要大量的木材 来制造少量的肥。

So the potash that Davy was using was actually potassium hydroxide.

因此戴维使用的实际上氢氧化。

The demand for potash was so high that across Europe and the eastern U.S., forests were decimated.

肥的需求量如此之高 以至于整个欧洲和美国东部， 森林被大量砍伐。