alkali
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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
Because a vanadium peroxide molecule is negatively charged, it needed alkali cations for charge balance, Nyman said, and the researchers used potassium, rubidium and cesium alkali cations for this study.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2024
A man suspected of an alkali attack in south London should not have been granted asylum, according to Home Office guidelines.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
Humic, hū′mik, adj. denoting an acid formed by the action of alkalies on humus or mould.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
In 1800 Nicholson and Carlisle decomposed water by passing the electric current through the same; Ritter decomposed copper sulphate, and Davy decomposed the alkalies, potash and soda.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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
An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
The fixed alkalis are of vegetable or mineral origin.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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