Look up: Barilla

1. barilla
   [n] - Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate
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2. Barilla
   Ba·ril'la (bȧ*rĭl'lȧ) noun [ Spanish barrilla .] 1. (Botany) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. 2. (Com.)
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3. barilla
   1. <botany> A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. ... 2. The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc, and for bleaching purposes. Impure soda obt...
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4. barilla
   noun Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate
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5. barilla
   kelpwort noun bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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6. Barilla
   • (n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. • (n.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. • (n.) Imp...
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7. Barilla
   Barilla was the commercial name for the impure carbonate and sulphate of soda formerly imported from Spain and the Levant. It is the Spanish name of a plant (Salsola Soda), from the ashes of which and from those of others of the same genus the crude alkali was obtained. On the shores of the Mediterr...
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8. Barilla
   `Barilla` refers to several species of salt-tolerant ("halophyte") plants that, until the 19^th Century, were the primary source of soda ash and hence (we now know) of sodium carbonate. The word "barilla" was also used directly to refer to the soda ash obta...
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