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Definition of Alkalis
1. alkali [n] - See also: alkali
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alkalis
Literary usage of Alkalis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"With the fixed alkalis the activity is progressive with increased ... Potable waters,
if free from common salt and alkalis, have very slight effect. ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry by Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, William Nicholson (1800)
"The alkalis are divided into fixed alkalis and volatile alkalis. ... NO more than
two kinds of fixed alkalis have hitherto been ..."
3. A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and by Robert Christison (1829)
"OF THE alkalis AND ALKALINE SALTS. THE Second Order of the Class of Irritants
comprehends the alkalis, some of the alkaline salts, and lime. ..."
4. The Elements of Experimental Chemistry by William Henry (1823)
"It is chiefly from their habitudes of chemical combination, that these new
substances arc classed among alkalis, which they resemble in the power of ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"It gives a violet-red solution in dilute alkalis or in sulphuric acid. ...
It forms a green solution in alkalis, whilst that in sulphuric acid is violet, ..."
6. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"Decompositions by fixed alkalis. The alkalis act chiefly by their predisposing
affinity for acids ... On hydrocarbons the alkalis exert little or no action, ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"He distinguished earths from alkalis by the property which the latter hare of
precipitating the former from their solutions, and the alkaline earths from ..."
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