Sample Sentences for
alkaline
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    Coffee or wine connoisseurs describe food with an excessively alkaline taste (too many alkaloids) as bitter (leaving a dry feeling at the back of the tongue).
    alkaline = higher pH
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    Living with a slightly alkaline soil is much easier and less expensive than trying to lower soil pH.
    alkaline = higher pH (typically greater than 7.3)
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    Cancer blood is more alkaline than normal blood.
    alkaline = has a higher pH
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    Its calculators can be set to any combination, so many amino acids, so much sulphur, so much butterfat and alkaline.  (source)
    alkaline = something with a pH greater than 7 (the opposite of acidic)
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    The way to unlock the niacin in corn is to cook it with an alkali like lime.  (source)
    alkali = with a pH of greater than 7 (so it will dissolve in water)
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    The key that locks up the acids and caustic alkalies!†  (source)
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    His lungs burned from the harsh alkaline dust.†  (source)
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    He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone.†  (source)
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    When the soil is too alkaline, which can be thought of as being too sweet, you need to add sulfur.†  (source)
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    The skyline was monotonous and unchanging and I was fearful that we might drive through the pastel houses altogether and out into the alkali waste beyond, into some sun-beaten trailer park from the movies.†  (source)
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    After all, water was still sweet, except for an alkaline river or two, like the Pecos.†  (source)
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    Anhydrous ammonia isn't "drawn to the eyes" because of their moisture, the way people sometimes say, it only feels that way, because the moisture in the eyes reacts with the fumes and creates a powerful alkali.†  (source)
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    It has an alkaline soil so firm that airplanes can be towed and parked on the surface without sinking.... An airplane graveyard is not just a fence around airplane carcasses and piles of scrap metal.†  (source)
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