alkali

Example Sentences

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These bacteria produce acid but are weak at generating alkali.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026

Lynn Boulton, the Sierra Club’s local conservation chair, walked along a dirt road to what was once a marshy alkali meadow.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 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

The way to unlock the niacin in corn is to cook it with an alkali like lime.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan