alkali
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They’re the pupae of alkali flies, a traditional food source of the Native Kootzaduka’a people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
This process combines fats or oils with an alkali to produce soap.
From BBC ● May 31, 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
The magenta pigments developed by OSU researchers are thermally and chemically inert because of their high preparation temperature and remain unaltered structurally and optically upon exposure to acid and alkali, the authors note.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The way to unlock the niacin in corn is to cook it with an alkali like lime.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
Among the chemical we note the action of acids and alkalies upon metals.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone
An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
Acids and alkalies are to some extent responsible for the fading of fabrics in the wash when these fabrics owe their colour to vegetable dyes.
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
The class of substances that seems particularly formed by nature to unite with acids, and thereby form neutral salts, are the alkalis.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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