alkalies
- plural of alkali.
Example Sentences
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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
And to make such a transplant work, they wash out the body's liquid wastes, rebalance its acids and alkalies, lower its potassium�biochemical feats no less remarkable than all their surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pain occurring immediately after food was usually relieved by alkalies; whereas acids were indicated where suffering was not experienced until an hour or two after the commencement of the digestive act.
Acids and alkalies are to some extent responsible for the fading of fabrics in the wash when these fabrics owe their colour to vegetable dyes.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
It will be sufficient for our purpose just now to know that acids have a sour taste and that alkalies counteract acids.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
