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Potassic fertilizers give the best results when applied to clovers, but dressings of phosphoric acid may also be helpful.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas

Potassic Cyanide is an easily fusible and somewhat volatile salt, which, when fused, readily removes oxygen and sulphur from metallic compounds, and forms potassic cyanate or sulphocyanate as the case may be.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Potassic Nitrite added 0 gram 1 gram 5 grams "Baric chloride" required 20.0 c.c.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Potassic manures are not so valuable in this country since experience has shown that most Scottish soils are abundantly supplied with this manurial ingredient.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton

Gun-cotton 1,123 " Potassic picrate 840 " which, multiplied by the mechanical equivalent per unit, gives— Nitro-glycerine 778 metre tons per kilogramme.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)