white alkali

American  

noun

1. 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.

2. refined soda ash.

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white alkali British  

noun

1. refined sodium carbonate

2. 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

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white alkali

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 James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Gypsum, however, has no effect upon white alkali.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

On every side stretched the dazzling white alkali, with here and there a little dust devil dancing as if in mockery at their plight.

From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

Then Esau got madder and sulked away down the valley among the little sage brush hummocks and white alkali waste land to nurse his wrath.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

"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 James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

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