alkali
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This process combines fats or oils with an alkali to produce soap.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
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 ● May 23, 2025
Another Los Angeles Times report on a roundup of immigrants begins by noting, “Human misery was compounded here today by a blistering desert sun and swirls of alkali dust.”
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
Using the proposed method, larger alkali metal ions such as cesium could be incorporated into the perovskite structure, leading to ferroelectrics with desirable dielectric properties.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Pots, pans, vats, machines exposed to corrosives will be protected by a skin of aluminum, metal highly resistant to mos.t acids and alkalies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like all resins, these are insoluble in water, soluble in alkalies, but precipitated on neutralization of the alkaline solution.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. ÷ earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The discovery of electrolytic hypochlorites dates back to 1859, when Watt found that chlorides of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths yielded hypochlorites on being submitted to the action of an electrical current.
From Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race
It will be sufficient for our purpose just now to know that acids have a sour taste and that alkalies counteract acids.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
In addition, the scientists substituted ammonium and tetramethyl ammonium, the former of which is mildly acidic, for the alkalis.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2024
Fermenting encompasses a range of processes through which microorganisms — yeasts, molds, bacteria — break down compounds in food to create alcohols, acids or alkalis, which in turn prevent the growth of harmful pathogens.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
Coal provided the power; the nascent chemical industry supplied the acids and alkalis essential to these enterprises.
From Nature ● Aug. 30, 2020
Alkalis were extracted from ashes, and soaps were prepared by combining these alkalis with fats.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Up to this time metallic calces, and for the most part alkalis and earths also, had been regarded as elementary substances.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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