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While researching life during colonial times, Carson learns that people would extract potassium hydroxide from wood ashes and mix it with animal fat. What were the colonists doing?

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soap

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Colonists made soap from an animal fat and potassium hydroxide. In interaction of fat and alkali there is a hydrolysis reaction. At the same time salts of a potassium and alcohols are formed.
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