Meaning of Varec | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The calcined ash of coarse seaweed, used for the manufacture of soda and iodine.
   archaic, uncountable
2. The seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
   archaic, uncountable

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Examples

“Potash was scarce because of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), and Bernard Courtois had resorted to varec imported from the Brittany and Normandy seacoasts [5].”

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