alkali : Idioms & Phrases
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alkali bee
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noun a common solitary bee important for pollinating alfalfa in the western United States
Nomia melanderi.
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alkali grass
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noun plant of western North America having grasslike leaves and greenish-white flowers
Zigadenus elegans.
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alkali metal
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noun any of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium)
alkaline metal.
- the hydroxides of the alkali metals are strongly alkaline
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alkali poisoning
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noun poisoning resulting from the ingestion of an alkali compound (as lye or ammonia)
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Fixed alkali
(Old Chem.) , a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.
Webster 1913
Fixed alkalies
- potash and soda.
Webster 1913
Vegetable alkali
(Chem.) , an alkaloid.
Webster 1913
Vegetable alkalies
- . Same as
Alkaloids .
Webster 1913
Volatile alkali
- ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.
