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

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

Experiments of the German Gerhard Schramm, first published in 1944, reported that TMV particles in mild alkali fell apart into free RNA and a large number of similar, if not identical, protein molecules.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson