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The glasswort (Salsola Kali).

See Caliph.

Formed like kali, or glasswort.

Forming alkalies with oxygen, as some metals.

Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists.

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.

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, characte…

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.