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
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
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
The way to unlock the niacin in corn is to cook it with an alkali like lime.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
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
Graphite is not affected by heat, cold, acids, or alkalies, and has a strong attraction for metal surfaces.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Alkalies also combine with oils, and the less thin and volatile they are, the more easily are they soluble in alkalies.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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
E Earths, 177; Stahl's views, 178; the connection between earths and alkalis, 178; their metallic bases, 182, 200.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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