alkali
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And he has seen them descend on Mono Lake when the water is teeming with brine shrimp and the larvae and pupae of alkali flies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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
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
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
They make it clear that there has been an introduction of fluorine and boron and a diminution in the alkalies during the transformation of the granitic rock into the greisen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
The discovery of electrolytic hypochlorites dates back to 1859, when Watt found that chlorides of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths yielded hypochlorites on being submitted to the action of an electrical current.
From Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race
They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
When heated with caustic alkalis it yields dibromresorcin and dibrommonoresorcin-phthalein.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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