Alkali Synonyms

ălkə-lī
Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. base
  2. salt
  3. antacid
  4. caustic-soda

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Alkali Sentence Examples

  • This treatment with acid and alkali is usually effected by agitation with compressed air.

  • If an alkali is added, however, a highly dissociated salt of para-nitrophenol is formed, and the yellow colour is at once evident.

  • Uranous hydrate is obtained as reddish-brown flakes by precipitating a uranous solution with alkali.

  • This salt may be used for the separation of cobalt and nickel, since the latter metal does not form a similar double nitrite, but it is necessary that the alkaline earth metals should be absent, for in their presence nickel forms complex nitrites containing the alkaline earth metal and the alkali metal.

  • Soap when dissolved in a large amount of water suffers hydrolysis, with formation of a precipitate of acid salt and a solution containing free alkali.

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