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alkalies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alkali \Al"ka*li\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Alkalis or Alkalies. [F. alcali, ultimately fr. Ar. alqal[=i] ashes of the plant saltwort, fr. qalay to roast in a pan, fry.]
Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
(Chem.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
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Soluble mineral matter, other than common salt, contained in soils of natural waters. [Western U. S.]
Fixed alkalies, potash and soda.
Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids.
Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia" [syn: base]
a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture
[also: alkalies (pl)]
See alkali
Usage examples of "alkalies".
Acid of this greater strength was used as the solutions of the alkalies were stronger.
The secretion rendered acid by the direct and indirect excitement of the glands--Nature of the acid--Digestible substances--Albumen, its digestion arrested by alkalies, recommences by the addition of an acid--Meat--Fibrin--Syntonin--Areolar tissue--Cartilage--Fibrocartilage--Bone--Enamel and dentine--Phosphate of lime--Fibrous basis of bone--Gelatine--Chondrin--Milk, casein and cheese--Gluten--Legumin--Pollen--Globulin--Haematin--Indigestible substances--Epidermic productions--Fibroelastic tissue--Mucin--Pepsin--Urea--Chitine--Cellulose--Guncotton--Chlorophyll--Fat and oil--Starch--Action of the secretion on living seeds--Summary and concluding remarks.
With the salts of alkalies and earths, the nature of the base, and not that of the acid, determines their physiological action on Drosera, as is likewise the case with animals.
I have seen a girl all of a flutter with pleasure in a laboratory when a young chemist was showing her the retorts and the crooked tubes and the glass wool and the freaks of color which the alkalies played with the acids.