alkali
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She remembers the lake being much higher in her youth when she went to the shore with her family, carrying baskets to collect kootzabe, or alkali fly pupae, a traditional food source.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
As the manhunt for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi continues, what do we know about the suspect in the alkali attack in Clapham, south London?
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
And to make such a transplant work, they wash out the body's liquid wastes, rebalance its acids and alkalies, lower its potassium�biochemical feats no less remarkable than all their surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The best antidotes for acids are soda, lime-water, soap-suds, and chalk; for alkalies, weak acids, such as lemons, oranges, vinegar, or cider.
From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by Granger, William D.
The pain occurring immediately after food was usually relieved by alkalies; whereas acids were indicated where suffering was not experienced until an hour or two after the commencement of the digestive act.
Acids turn vegetable blues red, alkalies turn vegetable blues green and vegetable yellows brown.
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
So far Davy's discoveries had all tended to confirm the generally accepted view which regarded alkalis and earths as metallic oxides.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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