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having a pH greater than 7 (this is the opposite of acidic)- an alkaline battery
- Cancer blood is more alkaline than normal blood.
- Alkaline solutions are typically slippery or soapy to the touch.
- Living with a slightly alkaline soil is much easier and less expensive than trying to lower soil pH.
- The way to unlock the niacin in corn is to cook it with an alkali like lime.Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Its calculators can be set to any combination, so many amino acids, so much sulphur, so much butterfat and alkaline.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- It was an alkaline country, and hundreds of Indians died from bad water.Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- I collected a quantity of seaweed to spread over them, which was afterwards burnt to make alkali, when we returned to secure our harvest of pearls.Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
- When the soil is too alkaline, which can be thought of as being too sweet, you need to add sulfur.Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
- The key that locks up the acids and caustic alkalies!Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- It might be that alkali in an improperly cleaned flask had caused the clearing of the culture.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- It has an alkaline soil so firm that airplanes can be towed and parked on the surface without sinking....Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- Says Monty, sarcastic as alkali water: 'Ed, we-all knowed you was a heap married man, but you're some locoed to give yourself away.'Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- Thus she got her eyes full of dust—an alkali dust that made them sting and smart.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- [1] [Footnote 1: The poison of a snake is a powerful acid, and is counteracted by powerful alkalies, such as potash, ammonia, &c.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Its essence—highly alkaline.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- He tried to guess what the solutions were by smell, but failed; the shower was slippery, though, which meant it was alkaline.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- The open country smelled clean, even when the wind blew and the dust rose with its acrid alkaline smell.Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- It measures the pH level of your sweat, so you can tell when you need to hydrate with alkaline water.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- I drink the water and it's alkaline, like soapy water.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
alkali = having a pH greater than 7 (this is the opposite of acidic)
alkaline = something with a pH greater than 7 (the opposite of acidic)
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