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"Varec" Definition
noun
The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine.
Source: Wiktionary
The seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
Source: Wiktionary
The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
In the original freuch use of this word it applies to the seaweed itself before burning, but it is now commonly applied to the ash which results from the burning, utilized for the extraction from it of iodine and salts of potassium, as formerly of sodium carbonate. also vareck.
Source: Century Dictionary
An impure sodium carbonate made in brittany: it corresponds to the english kelp. brande and cox.
Source: Century Dictionary