alkali
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The company has one aquamation machine that uses alkali solution, heat and pressure to break down the organic material into ashes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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 magenta pigments developed by OSU researchers are thermally and chemically inert because of their high preparation temperature and remain unaltered structurally and optically upon exposure to acid and alkali, the authors note.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
As the manhunt for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi continues, what do we know about the suspect in the alkali attack in Clapham, south London?
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
Pots, pans, vats, machines exposed to corrosives will be protected by a skin of aluminum, metal highly resistant to mos.t acids and alkalies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The discovery of electrolytic hypochlorites dates back to 1859, when Watt found that chlorides of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths yielded hypochlorites on being submitted to the action of an electrical current.
From Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race
Fourth—The oil must be free from acid, alkalies, animal or vegetable fillers, or other injurious agencies.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Of or pertaining to alloxan; Ð applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Lime, and the alkalies, are generally safe and useful additions, in connection with clover as a green manure; these may be applied to almost any worn soils with great advantage.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
In addition, the scientists substituted ammonium and tetramethyl ammonium, the former of which is mildly acidic, for the alkalis.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2024
Fermenting encompasses a range of processes through which microorganisms — yeasts, molds, bacteria — break down compounds in food to create alcohols, acids or alkalis, which in turn prevent the growth of harmful pathogens.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
Coal provided the power; the nascent chemical industry supplied the acids and alkalis essential to these enterprises.
From Nature ● Aug. 30, 2020
Alkalis were extracted from ashes, and soaps were prepared by combining these alkalis with fats.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Earths and alkalis are probably oxides of metals; this before long became an article of faith with all orthodox chemists.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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