alkaline
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The process - called alkaline hydrolysis - will offer families a third option instead of burial or traditional cremation.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
“When the Emperor Was Divine” takes place in Utah, in “a city of tar-paper barracks behind a barbed-wire fence on a dusty alkaline plain.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
The alkaline water with rich mineral composition is the only natural hot spring that flows directly into a building left uncapped in central Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
This charge allows them to work throughout the body in chemical reactions that maintain normal brain functioning, balance fluids inside and outside of body cells and even balance how acidic or alkaline your blood is.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
When the soil is too alkaline, which can be thought of as being too sweet, you need to add sulfur.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Vocabulary lists containing alkaline
Chemistry - High School
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Chemistry - Middle School
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