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Answer for the clue "Commercial anhydrous sodium carbonate ", 8 letters:
soda ash

Word definitions for soda ash in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper [syn: sodium carbonate , washing soda , sal soda , soda ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soda \So"da\, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having probably been a name of glasswort. See Solid .] (Chem.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide. Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. industrial-grade sodium carbonate

Usage examples of soda ash.

Usually, the silica is from sand (or quartz pebbles), the sodium oxide is formed from sodium carbonate (soda ash), and the calcium oxide is derived from calcium carbonate (limestone).

I measure in soda ash and cover the pot, turn on the exhaust hood.

This process would use only 1/7 to 1/4 as much polluting sulfur-based acid chemicals to break down the glue-like lignin that binds the fibers of the pulp, or even none at all using soda ash.

He climbed on top of the harvester again and threw handfuls of soda ash into the pools of acid.

There was a bag of soda ash in the copter, kept there for just this kind of emergency.

The mounted indians floundered among the down and kicking horses and they milled and circled and were shot down one by one until the dozen survivors among them turned and fled up the lake past the groaning column of refugees and disappeared in a drifting wake of soda ash.

He put down his plate (he had left the minnow) and he took from his satchels a small pot, a pipe, and some sacks of sand and soda ash and lime and other minerals.

Tahari salt accounts, in its varieties, I would suspect, for some twenty percent of the salt and salt-related products, such as medicines and antiseptics, preservatives, cleansers, bleaches, bottle glass, which contains soda ash, taken from salt, and tanning chemicals, used on known Gor.