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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)
  • It measures the pH level of your sweat, so you can tell when you need to hydrate with alkaline water.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Now she had to wet the reddish stains with a solution of potassium chlorate, plain water, and soft alkaline lye, scrubbing them repeatedly until she managed to get them out, and this difficult job was added to her job of washing the black clothes her mother wore.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "I don't know," Danny said, "maybe some kind of alkaline or acid.†   (source)
  • Its essence—highly alkaline.†   (source)
  • After all, water was still sweet, except for an alkaline river or two, like the Pecos.†   (source)
  • The dune fields, the alkali flats, the whiteness, the whole white sea-bottomed world, the lines of white haze in the distance, the six-thousand-year-old mummified baby found in a cave near White City, yes, and there were animals that bleached themselves white over the eons, a once-brown mouse that color-matched itself to the gypsum drifts to escape the gaze of predators.†   (source)
  • An occasional tombstone sign pointed the way, for once the drifted track that cut its way through the thick crust of alkali had been a highway and coaches had followed it.†   (source)
  • I drink the water and it's alkaline, like soapy water.†   (source)
  • The open country smelled clean, even when the wind blew and the dust rose with its acrid alkaline smell.†   (source)
  • The descriptive names followed: Paso de los Robles because of the oak trees; Los Laureles for the laurels; Tularcitos because of the reeds in the swamp; and Salinas for the alkali which was white as salt.†   (source)
  • Over the millions of years that followed, the pale green alkaline lake grew shallower, and finally vanished.†   (source)
  • "THE SOIL'S TOO ALKALINE," said his mother.†   (source)
  • The alkaline earth could not absorb any water and the ground quickly turned to mud.†   (source)
  • The body is too hot or too cold, too acid or too alkaline, there is too much oxygen or not enough.†   (source)
  • He always found it, but the streams grew smaller and the water more alkaline.†   (source)
  • Leavitt said that whenever possible, acidic and alkaline solutions were alternated.†   (source)
  • Felice was a hard-bitten little alkali-water town with equally hard-bitten bettors.†   (source)
  • Only the alkaline made your skin burn.†   (source)
  • He tried to guess what the solutions were by smell, but failed; the shower was slippery, though, which meant it was alkaline.†   (source)
  • MEDCOM PROGRAM LAB/ANALYS CK/JGG/1223098 i BLOOD PROTEIN COUNTSRBC RETIC ALB PLATES GLOB WBC FIBRIN DIFF TOTAL HEMATOCRIT FRACTION HEMOGLOBIN INDICES MCV DIAGNOSTICS MCHC PROTIME CHOLEST PTT CREAT SED RATE GLUCOSE PBI CHEMISTRY BEI i BRO I IBC CA NPN CL BUN MG BILIRU, DIFF P04 CEPH/FLOC K THYMOL/TURB NA C02 BSP 188 MICHAEL CRICHTON ENZYMES PULMONARY AMYLASE TVC CHOLINESTERASE TV LIPASE IC PHOSPHATASE, ACID IRV ALKALINE ERV LDH MBC SGOT SGPT URINE STEROIDS SPGR ALDO PH L7-OH PROT 17-KS GLUC ACTH KETONE ALL ELECTROLYTES VITS ALL STEROIDS A ALL INORGANICS ALLB CATECHOLS C PORPHYRINS E UROBIL K 5-HIAA Hall stared at the list.†   (source)
  • The choking alkaline smell of dust churned up in the arena, and the hot, clean smell of sunlight, the cool, clean smell of a cloud shadow.†   (source)
  • The water was hot and it smelled of alkali but that didn't make any difference.†   (source)
  • It was an alkaline country, and hundreds of Indians died from bad water.†   (source)
  • But in the alkali deserts the water holes were poisonous, and the vegetation offered nothing to a starving man.†   (source)
  • It might be that alkali in an improperly cleaned flask had caused the clearing of the culture.†   (source)
  • Thus she got her eyes full of dust—an alkali dust that made them sting and smart.†   (source)
  • And now what I need most is a razor to scrape the alkali and stubble off my face.†   (source)
  • Shefford's sore and blistered face felt better after he had washed off the sand and alkali dust.†   (source)
  • Shefford drank, finding the water cold and sweet, without the bitter bite of alkali.†   (source)
  • His face was swollen and peeling, and his lips had begun to dry and crack and taste of alkali.†   (source)
  • Neither did I put any sal-soda, or other acid or alkali, into my bread.†   (source)
  • The key that locks up the acids and caustic alkalies!†   (source)
  • 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.'†   (source)
  • Then he stood there, too, and wept, let the tears flow down his cheeks, like those that had stung the cheeks of the English naval officer—the colorless liquid that flows at every hour everywhere in the world, so richly and bitterly that earth's vale has poetically been named after it: an alkaline, salty liquid that our body secretes from glands when our nerves are subjected to the shock of pain, whether physical or psychological.†   (source)
  • But the miles brought compensation in other valleys, other bold, black upheavals of rock, and then again bare, boundless yellow plains, and sparsely cedared ridges, and white dry washes, ghastly in the sunlight, and dazzling beds of alkali, and then a desert space where golden and blue flowers bloomed.†   (source)
  • She wore ill-fitting false teeth, and her skin was as yellow as a Mongolian's from constant exposure to a pitiless wind and to the alkaline water which hardens the most transparent cuticle into a sort of flexible leather.†   (source)
  • She had taken two wonderful trips down into the desert—one trip to Chiricahua, and from there across the waste of sand and rock and alkali and cactus to the Mexican borderline; and the other through the Aravaipa Valley, with its deep, red-walled canyons and wild fastnesses.†   (source)
  • Here he found the spring, a deep well of eddying water walled in by stones, and the overflow made a shallow stream meandering away between its borders of alkali, like a crust of salt.†   (source)
  • They trailed the tracks of the dog and burro to Bitter Seeps, a shallow spring of alkali, and there lost all track of them.†   (source)
  • At first only the beauty stirred Hare—he saw the copper belt close under the cliffs, the white beds of alkali and washes of silt farther out, the wind-ploughed canyons and dust-encumbered ridges ranging west and east, the scalloped slopes of the flat tableland rising low, the tips of volcanic peaks leading the eye beyond to veils and vapors hovering over blue clefts and dim line of level lanes, and so on, and on, out to the vast unknown.†   (source)
  • For Hare the realities were the baked clay flats, where Silvermane broke through at every step; the beds of alkali, which sent aloft clouds of powdered dust; the deep gullies full of round bowlders; thickets of mesquite and prickly thorn which tore at his legs; the weary detour to head the canyons; the climb to get between two bridging mesas; and always the haunting presence of the sad-eyed dog.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • [1] [Footnote 1: The poison of a snake is a powerful acid, and is counteracted by powerful alkalies, such as potash, ammonia, &c†   (source)
  • He showed us, among other things, an account of a certain village council who were working hard at all this business; and the record of their intense earnestness in getting to the bottom of some matter which in time past would have been thought quite trivial, as, for example, the due proportions of alkali and oil for soap-making for the village wash, or the exact heat of the water into which a leg of mutton should be plunged for boiling—all this joined to the utter absence of anything like party feeling, which even in a village assembly would certainly have made its appearance in an earlier epoch, was very amusing, and at the same time instructive.†   (source)
  • My wife was satisfied when she saw the straw carried home and stacked; our crop of maize, which of course had not been threshed like the other corn, afforded soft leaves which were used for stuffing mattresses, while the stalks, when burnt, left ashes so rich in alkali as to be especially useful.†   (source)
  • For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.†   (source)
  • I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the
    Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,
    I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base,
    I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river,
    I see the clear waters of lake Tahoe, I see forests of majestic pines,
    Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold
    enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,
    Marking through these and after all, in duplicate slender lines,
    Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel,
    Tying the Eastern to the Western sea,
    The road between Europe and Asia.†   (source)
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