Potash vs Null - What's the difference?
potash | null |
the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap, glass and as a fertilizer
(chemistry) an impure form of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) mixed with other potassium salts
(chemistry, archaic) in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash", potassium (for example, "permanganate of potash" = potassium permanganate)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between potash and null
is that potash is the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap, glass and as a fertilizer while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.As a verb null is
to nullify; to annul.potash
English
Noun
(wikipedia potash)Derived terms
* acetate of potash * carbonate of potash * caustic potash * chlorate of potash * chromate of potash * citrate of potash * iridiate of potash * manganate of potash * nitrate of potash * muriate of potash * osmiate of potash * oxygenated muriate of potash * permanganate of potash * plumbate of potash * potash alum * potashery * potash-felspar * potash-granite * potash greensand * potash kettle * potash-lime * potash-mica * potash-water * silicate of potash * stannate of potash * stannite of potash * sulfate of potash, sulphate of potash * sulfurated potash, sulphurated potashReferences
* Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001]Anagrams
* *null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.