Alkalies is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALKALIES in dictionary:

NOUN [PLURAL AL·KA·LIS, AL·KA·LIES.]:
• a soluble mineral salt or a mixture of soluble salts, present in some soils, especially in arid regions, and detrimental to the growing of most crops.
NOUN:
• ALKALI, a substance which, dissolved in water, forms a solution containing hydroxyl ions and with a pH of more than 7
ADJECTIVE:
• alkaline.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of chemical compound

Words related to ALKALIES

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Words that contain ALKALIES

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How to use ALKALIES in a sentence

• That we had, for example, a sense of acids, of alkalies, of weight, and of heat.
• Not only were the threads of linen cloth of extraordinary fineness, but the dyes were equally remarkable, and were unaffected by strong alkalies.
• Knecht has isolated from the wool fibre by extraction with alkalies and precipitation with acids a substance to which the name of lanuginic acid has been given.
• The caustic alkalies cannot be used as they have too solvent an action on the fibre.
• These blacks are quite fast to acids and alkalies, are fast to light, and resist washing very well, the B brand being the fastest.
• This gives a fine jet shade of black, quite fast to a strong milling, and to light, alkalies and acids.
• Fastness to acids and fastness to alkalies is observed while carrying out the various acid and alkali tests given above.
• Davy succeeded in the decomposition of the alkalies, potash and soda, by means of electric currents.
• The free acids in fruits, when eaten, combine with the alkalies in the intestinal tract, and are absorbed by the body and pass into the blood, not as acids, but as neutral salts.
• Logwood paper is a very delicate test for free alkalies, which impart a violet tint to it.
• Neither are the alkalies, as they sink into the charcoal.
• The alkalies and their salts melt at a low red heat.
• The presence of the other alkalies does not prevent this reaction.
• It is then soluble in dilute alkalies, and can be reprecipitated from solution by alcohol, acids, or saline solutions.
• The straw is treated first with acids and afterwards with alkalies, and the result is a firm fibrous substance which is granulated.

Similar words containing ALKALIE without suffix s

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