alkalize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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As far as my life goes, I was able to alkalize those feelings into something I thought I could put out into the world to make change, and now I don’t know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2020
The carbonate and bicarbonate of soda tend to alkalize the system; the colon bacilli prevent putrefaction and toxemia; calomel and purge clean out the gall bladder and bowels.
From Time Magazine Archive
And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of � oz. cream of tartar dissolved in 3 pints of water, sweetened and flavored with lemon peel.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the way we always get rid of hazardous emotions: we destroy them as we alkalize acids.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)
The water is purified, heated, alkalized and ionized to attract oils, dirt and debris trapped in carpet fibers.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Mr. Apatow, 51, was walking into the Argosy Book Store in Midtown Manhattan, the sanctum sanctorum for autograph hounds, gulping down a brownie and an alkalized water.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2019
What followed: an alkalized gut, high energy, a new business, bliss.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 22, 2016
“I’m going to drink fifteen cups of alkalized water a day,” I said.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2010
Frustration is leavened into nonsense, indignation is alkalized by good nature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alkalis, 171; fixed and volatile, 173; mild and caustic, examined by Black, 176; connection with earths, 178; name of "base" given by Rouelle, 179; Gay-Lussac's alkalizing principle, 203.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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