Magnesia Alba, Quicklime and other Alkaline Substances," which contained the results of what is probably the first accurately quantitative examination of a chemical action which we possess.
The more of this a substance contains, the more acid it is; the less of this it contains, the more alkaline it is.
Using similar apparatus, he proved that the electric current decomposes very many minerals into an earthy or alkaline base and an acid.
Black did not hamper the advance of chemistry by finding a "principle of alkalinity;" but neither did he give a full explanation of the fact that certain bodies are alkaline while others are not.
In some processes the electrolysis affords directly an alkaline hypochlorite or a chlorate, the former being of wide commercial use as a bleaching agent in textile works and in the paper industry.
Other important electro-chemical processes are involved in the electrolysis of the various alkalinesalts to obtain metallic sodium and such products as chlorates.
Near noon that day, and within a few miles of the North Fork, we rounded analkaline plain in which this deadly creek had its source.
He accounted for its condition as due to the dry season, there being no general rains sufficient to flood the alkaline plain and thoroughly flush the creek.
Similarly, good mild ale waters should contain a certain quantity of sodium chloride, and waters for stout very little mineral matter, excepting perhaps the carbonates of the alkaline earths, which are precipitated on boiling.
The mineral springs, which yield bitter alkaline waters, are situated in the plain south of the Blocksberg, and are over 40 in number.
No clot is formed, even when pure water is poured on a mixture of the milk with the alkaline solution.
Possibly at some future day, one and the same alkaline principle, similar to morphine and strychnia, will be found in poisonous plants belonging to different genera.
It is surprising that an inland lake should not be richer inalkaline and earthy salts, acquired from the neighbouring soils.
Alkaline remedies of every description, must be most carefully avoided, their use in every point of view being most mischievous when the phosphates are concerned.
PROUT, was opium, either administered alone, or in conjunction with alkaline medicines.
This whitealkaline substance is the caustic lime deprived of its oxalic acid.
At the same time the zinc passes, in the alkaline solution, into a state of chloride and of soluble combination of zinc oxide and of alkali.
The use of the potassic or sodic alkaline liquid conjointly with chloride of silver, and the oxide of the same, that forms through the immersion of the carbon in a chloridizing bath.
The alkaline liquid is sufficient in quantity for two successive charges of the couple.
The iron remains in solution, while the mixed lead and tin sulphides precipitated are allowed to digest for a long time in an alkaline sulphide.
It is obtained as a fine red crystalline precipitate by reducing an alkaline copper solution with sugar.
Normal cupric carbonate, CuCO3, has not been definitely obtained, basic hydrated forms being formed when an alkaline carbonate is added to a cupric salt.
Copper quadrantoxide, Cu4O, is an olive-green powder formed by mixing well-cooled solutions of copper sulphate and alkaline stannous chloride.
With one exception, all references to the antiseptic properties of the drug in alkaline mediums are previous to 1913, that is, before the importance of reaction of the medium was fully appreciated.
The manufacturer, in a letter addressed to the secretary of the Council, explains: “By straight solution, I mean that the solution of the red mercuric iodid is effected without the aid of any alkaline iodid or other chemicals.
It has been demonstrated repeatedly that Iodine without the admixture of anyalkaline iodide is much more efficient as a surgical antiseptic than any iodine solution that contains such an addition.
It was introduced with the claim that it would be antiseptic even in alkaline urine.
As the solution was alkaline in reaction, it seemed unlikely that all the active chlorin was present in the free state, as declared on the label.
The lack of efficacy of hexamethylenamin in alkaline secretions is generally admitted and the clinical references to the use of hexamethylenamin in the pamphlet are obsolete.
Iodine does not produce ‘iodism’ as quickly as the alkaline iodides do because it is eliminated more quickly and more perfectly than the alkaline iodides.
An excess of alkali is present, however, as the solution has an alkaline reaction.
In case an alkalinereaction in the intestine is reached some of it would be left as insoluble phosphate.
Lewaschew and Klikowitch, from experiments upon dogs, conclude that the use of ordinary alkaline mineral waters was to increase the quantity of bile and to make it more fluid and watery.
Artificial solutions of alkaline salts were found to have a similar action to the natural mineral waters, and, as with them, the action varies according to the concentration of the solution.
In due time, I unyoked, and Dan led me to a new tank, half-full of horribly alkaline water.
The weather was hot; and they had barely sipped the alkaline water at last camp.
Heated with sulphuric acid and with nitric acid it is oxidized to boric acid, whilst on fusion with alkaline carbonates and hydroxides it gives a borate of the alkali metal.
It was also found that in the case of the patient in the Breslau Hospital the pyrogallic acid had acted by its extreme avidity for oxygen when in contact with alkaline fluids.
When I pour into it an alkaline solution, the acid will be forced to set the lead free in order to combine with the alkali.
I told him how its blackness was merely the result of fine particles of iron separated from the vitriol and precipitated by an alkaline solution.
Practically the only alkaline products now in use are the various hard and soft soaps, and the carbonates of soda and potash in their various forms of soda ash, soda crystals, potashes, pearl ash, etc.
The only available method is to try the effect of various acid and alkaline reagents on the sample, noting whether any change of colour occurs, and judging accordingly.
It is found in practice that an alkalinebath gives the best results.
The normal salts of the alkaline metals, such as sodium chloride, potassium sulphate, sodium sulphate, etc.
Make the bath slightly alkaline by adding ammonia.
Alkaline or soap baths do not work well as a rule, and must be avoided in wool dyeing.
The alkaline substances used in this process of scouring demand some notice.
The strength of the scouring liquor necessarily varies with the kind of wool being treated, and with the kind of alkaline product used; if soft, fine wools are being treated, then the liquor may be made with 1 to 2 lb.
Do not let it stand too long before use, make it alkaline by adding a little lime.
Besides, the aromatick Particles of the Cinnamon, and the alkaline ones of the Chocolate, will not a little add to the Strength and Operation of this Remedy.
In the first place, bitter and alkaline Substances, such as these Kernels, are stomachick and analogous to the Saliva and the Ferment which dissolves the Aliment in the Stomach; how then can it be of hard Digestion with these Qualities?
It will depend upon the amounts of salt and alkaline washing materials which it carries.
Still, Bermuda grass will make good pasturage on land which is too alkaline to make other crops, and therefore is highly esteemed by some owners of waste lands in the San Joaquin valley.
Without reference to an alkaline condition in the soil, and to give heavy soil a more friable character, which promotes cultivation, aeration, etc.
A mixture of ammonium sulphide, ammonium hydroxide and ammonium chloride will, therefore, precipitate the aluminium and zinc groups together, separating them from the alkaline earth and alkali groups.
Ions whose sulphides or hydroxides are insoluble in neutral or slightly alkaline (ammonium hydroxide) solutions.
We shall begin with the group of alkali metals, follow this group with the alkaline earths, then take the aluminium and zinc groups, the copper and silver groups, and finish with the arsenic group.
The alkaline earth ions, especially the ions of barium, strontium and calcium, form a great number of insoluble salts, which may be used to separate them from each other.
Chemically, the analogous compounds of the four alkaline earths resemble one another so much, that physical differences alone are used in their separation and identification.
As a fire-proofing material it would be excellent were it not that the alkaline reaction of this glass very often changes the coloring matters of paintings and textile fabrics.
Soluble glass is apparently coagulated by the addition of an alkaline salt; mixed with powdered matters upon which alkalies have no effect, it becomes sticky and agglutinative, a sort of mineral glue.
Soluble glass has also been used in the manufacture of soaps made with palm and cocoanut oil; this body renders them more alkaline and harder.
Whichever of these are used, the place must be immediately afterwards washed in pure water, so as to leave none of the gall or alkaline substance remaining.
Boiled milk, if set on one side, in warm weather, speedily becomes alkaline and putrid or putrefactive.
An alkalinehot bath should be of a temperature of 105 degrees Fahr.
Lymph is described by physiologists as a "transparent, colourless, nutrient alkaline fluid which circulates in the lymphatic vessels and thoracic ducts of animal bodies.
It also keeps down the disease-producing germs of putrefaction which work in an alkaline medium (opposite to acid) by depriving them of the sugar of the whey.
The plan now to adopt is not to check this skin trouble but to cure it along safe lines by amending the diet and purifying the skin itself by means of warm alkaline baths.
The reason is that cereals call for an alkaline form of digestion in the mouth which the acid fruits or the added sugar greatly retard.
Vapour baths, wet-sheet packs or alkaline hot baths can effect this purpose.
The juices of vegetables, being rich in alkaline "salts" and other organic elements, are the natural cleansing agents in a rational diet.
Cereal foods, if eaten slowly in a dry condition are made alkaline by the saliva, so that the vegetables, which are also naturally alkaline, would harmonise well with cereals if eaten with them.
Thus we can resort hot alkaline baths, Turkish baths, massage and Osteopathic stretching movements to help in this respect.
Whilst Forster states that treated cocoa is the most digestible, experts are not in agreement as to which is the more valuable foodstuff, the pure untouched cocoa, or that which is treated during its manufacture with alkaline salts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alkaline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
