barilla

• bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves
• Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate
• A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes
• The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes
• Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Bangladesh in Dhaka

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