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alkalies
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (plural of alkali English) n. (plural of alkali English)
WordNet
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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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.