alkali

These bacteria produce acid but are weak at generating alkali.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

The BBC's Mark Easton has been asking Commander Jon Savell about why it's taking time to find the alleged Clapham alkali attacker.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 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

Alkalies also combine with oils, and the less thin and volatile they are, the more easily are they soluble in alkalies.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

As the process of ripening becomes perfected, the acids combine with alkalies, and thus the acidity of the fruit diminishes, while its sweetness increases.

From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder

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 William D. Granger

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

In his first experiments on the effect of the electrical current on potash and soda, Davy used strong aqueous solutions of these alkalis, with the result that hydrogen and oxygen only were evolved.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir