alkaline

Relevance ranks synonyms and suggests the best matches based on how closely a synonym’s sense matches the sense you selected.

Relevance

A-Z

Length

Synonyms for alkaline

adj being basic, not acid (chemically)

adjective. burning, corrosive

adjective. flavored with sodium chloride

1670s, "pertaining to alkalis," from alkali + -ine (1). Of soils, attested from 1850.

The alkaline solution and washings were acidified and distilled from 10 p.ct.

Account for the fact that a solution of borax in water is alkaline.

They may be suspected if the milk is alkaline in reaction and has a disguised taste.

If alkaline, as it should be, the paper remains blue when dipped in it.

His spare supply was still ample and was distilled, not alkaline.

As often as once in two or three days, an alkaline bath should be taken.

On the other hand, the sulphide of lead is not soluble in the alkaline cyanides.

But it is reprecipitated unaltered by excess of alkaline oxalate.

The bromide of potassium must be pure and not alkaline, ditto the gelatine.

In two hours the sky is clear and the air is hot and alkaline.