DCHP-3

black salts

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1819
Twenty-five Cwt. of clean black salts will make one ton of pearl ash.
1853
After the lye is run off it is boiled down into black salts, which are melted into pot-ash, and packed into air-tight barrels ready for market.
1904
. . . "blacksalts" [were] a product of the leached ashes of burnt logs and timber, rendered into potash and pearl ash and brought by the early merchants for export.