alkali

After spending July gorging on the larvae of alkali flies, the birds are gradually departing this month to begin their migration to another saline lake about 6,000 miles away — Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

They’re the pupae of alkali flies, a traditional food source of the Native Kootzaduka’a people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

The low-carbon seawater then has alkali added to it – to neutralise the acid that was added – and is then pumped back out into a stream that flows into the sea.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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

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

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?

The manifold minerals, metals, oxides, acids, and alkalies are used in a variety of ways by the modern chemical potter.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox

The granules, which disappear on the addition of acids and alkalies, are apparently either added to the cell or result from a precipitation within the same.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Acids and alkalies are to some extent responsible for the fading of fabrics in the wash when these fabrics owe their colour to vegetable dyes.

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

In its medicinal use glycerin is an excellent solvent for such substances as iodine, alkaloids, alkalis, &c., and is therefore used for applying them to diseased surfaces, especially as it aids in their absorption.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various