alkali

She remembers the lake being much higher in her youth when she went to the shore with her family, carrying baskets to collect kootzabe, or alkali fly pupae, a traditional food source.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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

The magenta pigments developed by OSU researchers are thermally and chemically inert because of their high preparation temperature and remain unaltered structurally and optically upon exposure to acid and alkali, the authors note.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 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

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

Like all resins, these are insoluble in water, soluble in alkalies, but precipitated on neutralization of the alkaline solution.

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

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

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

Fortunately, Agricola usually carefully mentions other alkalis, such as the product from lixiviation of ashes, separately from his nitrum.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola