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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…

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

Of power to counteract alkalies.

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

A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.

Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

ia. 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, characterized by the presence of sodium sulphate (Glauber's salt), which…

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

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

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.

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral. [R.] Smart.

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.

One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.

An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. Knight.

lium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.