BARILLA

n. Baîr-ill as. Fr., barille. Sp.. barilla. 1. (Also called Spanish b.) an impure sodium carbonate obtained by the incineration of various terrestrial plants of the genera Satsola, Salicornia, and Che no podium. It occurs in hard, porous ma es, of a grayish-blue color, which, on ex ire, become covered with a crust of saline matter. [B.5.] 2. The Batis maritima. [B, 19.) —B. de cobre (Sp.). See B. coppzr.—B’kupfer (Ger.). See B. coppER.—B. of Aiguemortes. Fr., blanquette. A variety obtained from several pe containing from 3 to 8 per cent. of sodium carbonate. [L 120.|—B’soda (Ger.). See B. (ist def.). British b. 1. Kelp. [B, 19.) 2. Black ash, soda-ball; a substance ‘produced in the first stage of the manufacture of sodium carbonate ‘rom sodium sulphate; por pared by heating the latter with its own weight of fimestone and half its weight of fine coal. It is a black ma consisting of sodium sesquicarbonate and calcium sulphide. [B, 5.|—Canary b. A variety made from the Salsola kali. [L, 120.|—Copper b. B. coprer.—French b. See B. of Aiguemortes, Narbonne b., and Normandy b.—Narbonne b. Salicor; a variety made from the Salicornia annua or the Salicornia herbacea, containing from 14 to 15 per cent. of sodium carbonate. [L, 120.|—Normandy b. Normandy soda; a variety made from Fuci. [L. 120.|—Sicily b. A variety made chiefly from the Salsola sativa, oe r cent. of sodium carbonate. [F6e (L, 420).]—Spanish b., (ist def.).