Alkali is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALKALI in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a substance which, dissolved in water, forms a solution containing hydroxyl ions and with a pH of more than 7
• a compound with particular chemical properties including turning litmus blue and neutralizing or effervescing with acids; typically, a caustic or corrosive substance of this kind such as lime or soda
• substance which combines with acid and neutralizes it to form a salt
• Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
• One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
• any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
• a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of chemical compound

Words related to ALKALI

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How to use ALKALI in a sentence

• His home was a bare shack, sometimes built on the wind-swept alkali plains, and sometimes in the tangled woods.
• And when I had tasted the water, I found that it did seem smooth and proper for our intent, as that there did be a verity of an alkali in it.
• A heavy shower the morning we reached the alkali plains made the trip through that region, where travelers suffer so much, quite endurable.
• During the first two weeks of the campaign my eyes became badly affected from the dust and glare of the sun, reflected from the white alkali plains on the head of Crooked River.
• It was abominable, this hideous sink of alkali, this bed of some primeval lake lying so far below the level of the ocean.
• The apparatus employed in its preparation is perhaps the most ingenious part of the works, and well worthy of attention by others besides alkali makers.
• Both men were so powdered and caked with alkali that their features were indistinguishable.
• A brief agony cracked the mask of alkali on his countenance.
• We pushed on up the creek, kicking up clouds of alkali dust as we went.
• The Mexican started to answer, but his throat was raw with alkali dust and his voice was scarcely audible.
• When he reached the top the man was on the level, racing across a barren alkali flat at a speed which indicated that he was afflicted with something more than shyness.
• Then the fellowship of husband and wife is like that of acid and alkali.
• But I swallowed their dust to the Arkansaw, and from there home we lived in clouds of alkali.
• Presently we commence our run through the great barren alkali plains, emerging from which we get into a more fertile country, and, at Cedar Pass, notice the great ranch of Messrs.
• His face was swollen and peeling, and his lips had begun to dry and crack and taste of alkali.
• The heat was scorching over the dreary, dusty wastes of sand and alkali, where hardly the cactus could find sustenance.
• Sulphate of soda, you know, is a salt compounded of the alkali soda and sulphuric acid.
• Patches and plains of white, borax flats or alkali, showed up like snow.
• Let the names of those two men long be held in grateful honor by the American people! INDEX A Alkali, natural deposits of, 60.
• With a small quantity of the alkali fuses to a black bead.
• With much of the alkali is decomposed, yielding metallic copper.

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