alkali

Example Sentences

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Lynn Boulton, the Sierra Club’s local conservation chair, walked along a dirt road to what was once a marshy alkali meadow.

From Los Angeles Times

And he has seen them descend on Mono Lake when the water is teeming with brine shrimp and the larvae and pupae of alkali flies.

From Los Angeles Times

She remembers the lake being much higher in her youth when she went to the shore with her family, carrying baskets to collect kootzabe, or alkali fly pupae, a traditional food source.

From Los Angeles Times

This process combines fats or oils with an alkali to produce soap.

From BBC

The company has one aquamation machine that uses alkali solution, heat and pressure to break down the organic material into ashes.

From Los Angeles Times