Definition of Base-forming

1. Adjective. Yielding a base in aqueous solution.

Similar to: Alkalic, Alkaline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Base-forming

basaltware
basaluminite
basanite
basanites
basans
basashi
basbleu
basbleus
bascinet
bascinets
bascule
bascule bridge
bascules
base
base-burner
base-forming (current term)
base-metal
base-pair breathing
base-stacking
base analogue
base ball
base character
base characters
base communications
base composition
base deficit
base dissociation constant
base excess

Literary usage of Base-forming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"From this the inference is drawn that the oxygen is the base-forming ... /H \CH = С Me/ \Я to be in the compound no other element which can be base-forming, ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1909)
"The compounds of the base-forming elements with hydrogen and oxygen are bases, ... But the distinction between acid-forming and base-forming elements is not ..."

3. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1911)
"of acid-forming and base.forming elements in the food (and it has been suggested that such disturbance may also be connected with other abnormalities of ..."

4. The Elements of Chemistry: A Text-book for Beginners by Ira Remsen (1902)
"The meaning of the name base-forming elements is that the compounds of these ... But the distinction between acid-forming and base-forming elements is not a ..."

5. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1915)
"The surplus of base-forming elements which remains as carbonate and makes the ... A table showing potential alkalinity or excess of base-forming elements in ..."

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