“Potasium [sic] and sodium are the names by which I have ventured to call the new substances; and... these terms can scarcely express an error; for they may be considered as implying simply the metals produced from potash and soda. ...and though a name for the basis of soda might have been borrowed from the Greek, yet an analogous one could not have been applied to that of potash, for the ancients do not seem to have distinguished between the two alkalies.”
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