- Element K - Fertiliser element - Light silvery element - Metallic element K - An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always
combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the
minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight
39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).
- Crop booster - Crop-booster - Fertiliser compound - Fertiliser ingredient - A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief
constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also
present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver,
etc.
- An oxide - Fertiliser ingredient - Potassium carbonate - The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle
substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence
called also caustic potash. - The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood
ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline
(pearlash).
- Animal dung as compost - Animal fertiliser - Cow pat - Natural fertiliser - To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop
by culture. - To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the
application of a fertilizing substance. - Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing
substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying
animal or vegetable substances, etc.