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• ABS materials are however susceptible to chemical attacks by chlorinated solvents, esters, ketines, acids and alkalis.2013, Roy D Cullum, Handbook of Engineering Design, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry ketine
• Alkali soils are also pedocals, with a salt content high enough to kill plants.2003, Robert E. Krebs, The Basics of Earth Science, page 162. From the entry pedocal
• The plant is drought tolerant and winter hardy, but is less tolerant of alkali soils.1989, Better Roads, volume 59, page 34. From the entry sideoats
• The reversible discoloration of alkali halides was originally observed by E.1954, The American Mineralogist, volume 39, page 616. From the entry tenebrescence
• It is characteristically burning and has a belchy feel because belching and alkalies relieve it.1944, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association: Volume 41. From the entry belchy
• The alkali basalts are fine-grained in hand specimen with scattered phenocrysts of greenish olivine up to 5 mm in size.2011, M. C. Bruce, “Geodiversity of the Southern Barrington Tops Lava Field, New South Wales: A Study in Petrology and Geochemistry”, in…. From the entry clinopyroxene
• In general, rocks containing a high proportion of aluminium and iron laterise more readily than those composed mainly of alkali felspars.1932, Technical Communication - Imperial Bureau of Soil Science. From the entry laterise
• Liquids in intimate contact with metals, such as seawater, acids alkides and alkalies, are serious corroders for a large variety of metals and alloys.2006, Zaki Ahmad, Principles of Corrosion Engineering and Corrosion Control, page 481. From the entry corroder
• We oppose the Lovewell Dam because the dam will inundate almost as much rich fertile ground as it will irrigate this land containing alkali salts.1955, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, volume 2, page 487. From the entry proirrigation
• The citrate is the most efficient as an alkali, but irritates some stomachs, the liquor the most anodyne, the acetate the most diuretic.1910, Edward L. Keyes, Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs, page 211. From the entry anodyne
• When yttrium was added in the form of a water solution of a salt and alkali hydrolysis was used the condition for ultraexcessive water hydrolysis was realized.2009, Glass and Ceramics, page 330. From the entry ultraexcessive
• Abundant phenocrysts and glomerocrysts of altered olivine and fresh clinopyroxene, up to 2 mm across, occur with sporadic microphenocrysts of opaque iron oxide and alkali feldspar (Figure 3.1).2007, F. L. Sutherland et al., “Unusual Baryte-bearing Hybrid Basalt, Bourke-Byrock Area, Northern New South Wales”, in Journal and…. From the entry clinopyroxene
• The largest central volcanoes (Peak Range and Springsure) occupy the 'swell' in that arc, which peters out southwards into tholeiitic and finally subsurface alkali basalt intrusives (Roma drilling results).2003, R. R. Hillis, Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate, page 213. From the entry alkali basalt

Meaning of alkali

1. noun One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving 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.
2. noun Soluble mineral matter, other than common salt, contained in soils of natural waters.

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How do you use alkali in a sentence?

Alkali is used as a noun. For example: “ABS materials are however susceptible to chemical attacks by chlorinated solvents, esters, ketines, acids and alkalis.”

What is a short sentence with alkali?

“The reversible discoloration of alkali halides was originally observed by E.”

What does alkali mean?

Alkali means one of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving 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.