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UK
/ˈælkəlˌaɪn/
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[ US /ˈæɫkəˌɫaɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈæɫkəˌɫaɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7
alkaline soils derived from chalk or limestone
How To Use alkaline In A Sentence
- This gas is absorbed by barium hydroxide solution, an alkaline solution known as baryta water.
- It will also grow in slightly alkaline water provided the water in changed very regularly.
- Alkaline relatively stable sodium hypochlorite solution, commonly known as An Ti Ming.
- (It wasn't until I was parked at the second new lek, which is actually the first new lek, that I remember one if the reasons I bought this Olympus camera is because it can use regular alkaline batteries. Grouse Diary Entry
- It results from the reaction of phosphorus with iron and aluminum in acidic soils, and calcium in alkaline soils.
- They are usually applied to wool and silk in a neutral or slightly alkaline bath; on cotton they are fixed by means of tannate of antimony or tin. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
- Immunohistochemical detection by, for example, alkaline phosphatase or peroxidase has been utilized in some papers.
- If, for instance, you have alkaline soil you can dig a large hole, fill it with ericaceous compost and grow acid-loving plants such as azalea and foxgloves.
- Bushmen in his employ, they came to a deep water-hole, where the precious fluid, though "brak" (alkaline) and stagnant, was still plentiful and drinkable, and within working distance of which the newly-discovered "fields" were located. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
- Within the Grenville basement these are represented by alkalic to tholeiitic mafic dykes and alkalic to peralkaline granite plutons.