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, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

a smaller amount of potash, and usually a little lime and magnesia. Two main classes of alkali are commonly distinguished: black alkali, which may be any alkaline carbonate, but which practically consists of sodium carbonate (sal soda), which is highly corrosive and destructive to vegetation; and white alkali, charac…

Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.

Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.

Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.

The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.

Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. Alkaline earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies. -- Alkaline metals, potassium, sodium, cæsium, lithium, rubidium. -- Alkaline reaction, a reaction indicating al…

The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson.

Alkaline. [Obs.]

Alkaline. [Obs.] Boyle.

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

ors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, a…

tion of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also albuminate.

A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.