white alkali
Americannoun
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Agriculture. a whitish layer of mineral salts, especially sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, and magnesium sulfate, often occurring on top of soils where rainfall is low.
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refined soda ash.
noun
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refined sodium carbonate
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any of several mineral salts, esp sodium sulphate, sodium chloride, and magnesium sulphate, that often appear on the surface of soils as a whitish layer in dry conditions
Example Sentences
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A brazen glare lay over the scene, while up from the white alkali flats rose a wave of heat that was suffocating.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Patchin, Frank Gee
"I could make town, sometime to-night," she mused, and then her eyes rested for a moment upon her horse's neck where the white alkali dust lay upon the rough, sweat-dried hair.
From The Gold Girl by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
Farther on, even the green patches disappeared and white alkali soil showed between the gnarled sage bushes.
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
My soil is sandy loam with light traces of white alkali, although it does not seem to be detrimental to the growth thus far.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
They had come out on the level plain, and before them for several miles stretched the white alkali of the Nevada Desert.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Patchin, Frank Gee
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