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Definition of Alkalies
1. alkali [n] - See also: alkali
Medical Definition of Alkalies
1. Usually a hydroxide of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium or cesium, but also the carbonates of these metals, ammonia, and the amines. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alkalies
Literary usage of Alkalies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conversations on Chemistry: In which the Elements of that Science are by Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lee Comstock, John Lauris Blake (1835)
"ON alkalies. Mrs. B. Having now given you some idea of the laws by which ...
We shall first take a view of the alkalies, of which there are three, viz. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1843)
"Chloride nf Gold as a test of certain vegetable alkalies, (Morphine, Brucine,
Strychnine.} — MM. LAROCQUE and THIBIERGE have found the perchloride of gold a ..."
3. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"The ultimate dissociation- products resulting from the action of acids and alkalies
have been discussed on pp. 90-96. As already pointed out, the formation ..."
4. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1921)
"Those of the alkalies; the remainder are difficultly soluble or insoluble. ...
Only those of the alkalies. 21. Selenites. — Those of the alkalies are ..."
5. New Conversations on Chemistry: Adapted to the Present State of that Science by Thomas P. Jones, Marcet (Jane Haldimand) (1832)
"ON THE alkalies. Distinguishing Characters of the alkalies. Fixed and Volatile
alkalies. Potassa. Soda. Formation of Soap. Caustic and Mild alkalies. ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"\Ynn.K working upon soils in this laboratory, considerable difficulty was found
in the determination of the total alkalies. The method used was that ..."
7. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"FREE alkalies Potassium, Sodium and Ammonium Hydroxides Free alkalies.—The same
general principles used in detecting mineral acids are applicable also to ..."
8. A Text-book on Chemistry by John William Draper (1861)
"THE vegetable alkalies constitute an extensive class of bodies, which are, for
the most part, the active medicinal agents of the plants in which they occur. ..."
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