alkali

Example Sentences

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These bacteria produce acid but are weak at generating alkali.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026

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

This process combines fats or oils with an alkali to produce soap.

From BBC • May 31, 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

He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer