ALKALI
\ˈalkəlˌa͡ɪ], \ˈalkəlˌaɪ], \ˈa_l_k_ə_l_ˌaɪ]\
Definitions of ALKALI
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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One of a class of substances, as soda or potash, having the properties of being soluble in water and in alcohol, of combining with fats to form soap, and of changing the tint of many coloring matters; in chemistry a base.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A substance, such as soda or potash, which neutralises the action of an acid, and changes vegetable blues into green, yellows into brown.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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see Alcali-a. Ammoniacum causticum, Ammonia-a. Ammoniacum spirituosum, Spiritus ammoniae-a. Minerale nitratum, Soda, nitrate of-a. Minerale phosphoratum, Soda, phosphate of-a. Minerale salinum, Soda, muriate of-a. Vegetable, Potash-a. Vegetabile cum aceto, Potassae acetas-a. Vegetabile fixum causticum, Potassa fusa-a. Volatile, Ammonia-a. Volatile causticum, Ammonia-a. Volatile, concrete, Ammoniae carbonas-a. Volatile, mild, Ammoniae carbonas-a. Volatile nitratum, Ammoniae nitras-a. Volatile tartarizatum, Ammoniae tartras-a. Volatile vitriolatum, Ammoniae sulphas.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
