alkali

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The lab can’t show you how a plume of alkali spreads through ocean waters, how added particles might clump up, or how the chemicals might affect marine life.

From Science Magazine

A two-week supply of chlorine alkali chemicals is now sitting on the tracks somewhere in Southern California, and the district can’t get it.

From Los Angeles Times

Also called “Dutched” or “alkalized,” Dutch-process cocoa powder has been treated with an alkali solution to increase the pH to between roughly 7 and 8.

From Washington Post

Late Thursday, authorities ordered the roughly 70 homes amid the sage, poplars and Russian olive trees that line the shallow, alkali lake to evacuate.

From Los Angeles Times

Don’t use cleaners containing acid, alkali or sodium hypochlorite that will mar, etch, corrode or permanently discolor the laminate surface.

From Seattle Times