alkali

Lynn Boulton, the Sierra Club’s local conservation chair, walked along a dirt road to what was once a marshy alkali meadow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 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

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

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

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

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

It is saponified by alkalies, with reproduction of soluble gum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Fourth—The oil must be free from acid, alkalies, animal or vegetable fillers, or other injurious agencies.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

Hydrolysis is reduced by caustic alkalies and alkaline carbonates, and increased by acids and acid carbonates that reduce the OH′ concentration.

From Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race

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

V Valentine, Basil, an alchemist, 15; his views on alkalis, 174.

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