alkali
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This process combines fats or oils with an alkali to produce soap.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
The company has one aquamation machine that uses alkali solution, heat and pressure to break down the organic material into ashes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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
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
And to make such a transplant work, they wash out the body's liquid wastes, rebalance its acids and alkalies, lower its potassium�biochemical feats no less remarkable than all their surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of or pertaining to alloxan; Ð applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
Where the case is not imminent, alkalies have sometimes been successfully administered, which combine with the carbonic acid gas, and thus at once reduce its volume.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
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
The results of this research, and his subsequent work on the alkalis and on muriatic acid and chlorine, have been already described.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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