The reaction of human milk is slightly alkaline; of cow's, neutral or slightly acid.
It may be neutral or slightly alkaline in some cases of gastric cancer and marked chronic gastritis, or when contaminated by a considerable amount of saliva.
If found to be strongly acid, that is if it turns the paper red, it should be rejected, but if only slightly so, sufficient lime water may be added to render it slightly alkaline.
Healthy cow's milk is slightly alkaline, but that of cows fed on slops is usually acid, and unfit for infants.
Perfectly fresh milk is slightly alkaline, but soon becomes acid on exposure to the air, and after a time white coagula of casein (CURDS) separate from it.
It possesses the general alkaline properties of carbonate of potassium, but in an inferior degree, having only a slightly alkaline taste, and, when absolutely pure, not affecting the colour of turmeric.
The vesicles or sacs contain a clear, faintly yellowish, or opalescent fluid, neutral or slightly alkaline in reaction, and holding in solution a large per cent.
This fluid, which has been examined chemically by Frerichs, is found to be slightly alkaline, to have only 2 per cent.
Ions whose sulphides or hydroxides are insoluble in neutral or slightly alkaline (ammonium hydroxide) solutions.
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