alkali
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These bacteria produce acid but are weak at generating alkali.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2026
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
A man suspected of an alkali attack in south London should not have been granted asylum, according to Home Office guidelines.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
The best antidotes for acids are soda, lime-water, soap-suds, and chalk; for alkalies, weak acids, such as lemons, oranges, vinegar, or cider.
From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger
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 Robert Jennings
Humic, hū′mik, adj. denoting an acid formed by the action of alkalies on humus or mould.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. ÷ earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies.
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
Why are acids acid, and why are alkalis alkaline?
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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