whats potash? Can i use it to make KNO3?

[Ice_Phoenix87]

whats potash? Can i use it to make KNO3? if i can that will be great, cause i can buy the stuff from the chemists

[YT2095]

potash is usualy considered as potassium carbonate, although the extension if often applied to other potassium based chems including potassium hydroxide, where the name original came from Ashes

and sure can use it, it`s just as good as the potassium chloride at displacing the sodium in sodium nitrate, mentioned in your gunpowder thread