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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
  • 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)
  • Cancer blood is more alkaline than normal blood.
    alkaline = has a higher pH
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  • an alkaline battery†
  • 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)
  • The key that locks up the acids and caustic alkalies!†  (source)
    alkalies = bases with a pH of greater than 7 (so they will dissolve in water)
  • 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)
  • He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone.†  (source)
    alkali = with a pH of greater than 7 (so it will dissolve in water)
  • [1] [Footnote 1: The poison of a snake is a powerful acid, and is counteracted by powerful alkalies, such as potash, ammonia, &c†  (source)
    alkalies = bases with a pH of greater than 7 (so they will dissolve in water)
  • His lungs burned from the harsh alkaline dust.†  (source)
    alkaline = having a pH greater than 7 (this is the opposite of acidic); or having a greater pH than something else
  • 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)
    alkali = with a pH of greater than 7 (so it will dissolve in water)
  • "THE SOIL'S TOO ALKALINE," said his mother.†  (source)
    ALKALINE = having a pH greater than 7 (this is the opposite of acidic); or having a greater pH than something else
  • 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)
    alkali = with a pH of greater than 7 (so it will dissolve in water)
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