Alkali

Definitions: Alkali

Alkali

Noun

1. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia".

2. A mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture.

Date "alkali" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Alkali

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	A soluble salt obtained from the ashes of plants and consisting largely of potassium or sodium carbonate; a substance having marked basic properties. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Any strongly basic substance, such as a hydroxide or carbonate of an alkali metal (e.g., sodium, potassium). Plural: alkalies. Adj. alkaline; alkalic. Said of silicate minerals that contain alkali metals but little calcium; e.g., the alkali feldspars b. Any substance having marked basic properties; i.e., being capable of furnishing to its solution or other substances the hydroxyl ion, OH (super-) e.g., the alkali feldspars i.e., being capable of furnishing to its solution or other substances the hydroxyl ion, OH (super-). (references)
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Specialty Definition: Alkali

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In chemistry an Alkali is a base which produces hydroxide ions (OH^-) when dissolved in water, such as sodium hydroxide.

(see also Alkali metal and Alkaline earth).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alkali."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Alkali

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ALPHA	English	Alkali Plasma Hall Accelerator	Physics
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Alkali

Synonym: base (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Alkali

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bitterness	Noun: bitterness, acridness, acridity, acrimony; caustic, alkali; acerbity; gall, wormwood; bitters, astringent bitters.
Calefaction	Cauterizer; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa; acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium.
Gaseity	Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.
Plain	Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Alkali

English words defined with "alkali": Albuminate, Alkali albumin, alkali bee, alkali grass, Alkali green, alkali metal, alkali poisoning, alkalic, Alkalies, Alkalifiable, Alkalimeter, alkalimetry, alkaline, alkaline metal, Alkalis, Alkalization, ammonium, ammonium ion, atomic number 11, atomic number 19, atomic number 3, atomic number 37, atomic number 38, atomic number 56 ♦ Ba, barium, black alkali ♦ Chrysothamnus nauseosus, Corrector, corrosive ♦ denature ♦ Ebullition ♦ Fixed alkali, Frit ♦ Hermetical ♦ k ♦ lac dye, li, Light metals, Lion's leaf, lithium ♦ Na ♦ potassium ♦ rabbit brush, rabbit bush, Rb, rubidium ♦ saponification, Saponul, Soda waste, sodium, sodium hydroxide, Spermatin, Sr, strontium ♦ Vegetable alkali, Volatile alkali ♦ Wood pulp. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alkali": ACID MAKER, activated clay, activated earth, activated fuller's earth, AGER OPERATOR, alkali bentonite, alkali dermatitis, alkali feldspar, alkali garnet, alkali granite, alkali itch, alkali soil, alkali subbentonite, alkaline-earth bentonite, alkalinization ♦ ball maker, balling furnace, banakite, beta-cellulose, Bicarbonates, black powder, buffalo wallows, buffering, buffering power ♦ cascadite, COLOR MAKER, compounder, sterile products ♦ derivative structure, DRIER OPERATOR ♦ elkerite, enamel frit, essexite ♦ fenite, flotation regulator, free cyanide ♦ gamma-cellulose, glassy feldspar, glassy feld-spar, grass bleach ♦ highwoodite, humic acid ♦ ION-EXCHANGE OPERATOR ♦ KETTLE WORKER ♦ larvikite, low-alumina silica brick, Lysinoalanine ♦ mercerizer, Metals, Alkali, modified starch, mould acid ♦ nickel oxide ♦ perthorite, protective alkali ♦ quartz liquefier ♦ rhyacolite, rhyodacite ♦ saponification agent, saponifying agent, scab spots, shonkinite, shoshonite, SHREDDER OPERATOR, SHREDDING-FLOOR-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, slick spots, Smalley process, soaking-room operator, sodalitite, SODA-ROOM OPERATOR, steeping-press operator, STERILE-PRODUCTS PROCESSOR, subalkalic, SUPERVISOR, CHEMICAL ♦ total cyanide, trachyandesite, trachybasalt ♦ vitreous enamel, vogesite ♦ WASTE-TREATMENT OPERATOR, WET-END OPERATOR II, white alkali. (references)

Etymologies containing "alkali": Kaligenous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Alkali" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (alkali, alkaline), Dutch (alkali), German (alkali), Swedish (alkali), Turkish (alcali, alkali).

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Modern Usage: Alkali

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Alkali Ike (1950)

Iowa Alkali (1995)

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Commercial Usage: Alkali

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Sodium and Other Alkali Metals: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Alkali Halides: A Handbook of Physical Properties (Springer Series in Materials Science, 49) (reference) Alkali Trails: Or Social and Economic Movements of the Texas Frontier 1846-1900 (Double Mountain Books--Classic Reissues of the American West) (reference) F-Centers in Alkali Halides (reference) Grampa's Alkali (Northern Lights Young Novels) (reference) Metal Bonding and Interactions in High Temperature Systems With Emphasis on Alkali Metals (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Chlor Alkali Market Report Service (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Image Slideshow: Alkali

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Photo Album: Alkali

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Nature Trail at Alkali Creek Trailhead at the south end of Fort Meade.Credit: Merv Coleman.		Signs at Alkali Creek at the south end of Fort Meade.Credit: Merv Coleman.
	Coal bucket at Alkali CreekOregon TrailLower Snake River District.Credit: W. Meyer.		Alkali Creek 40 miles north of Belle Forche.Credit: Merv Coleman.
	Tree at Alkali Creek Trailhead, Fort Meade South Dakota.Credit: Merv Coleman.		Kiosk at Alkali Creek TrailHead, Fort Meade.Credit: Merv Coleman.
	Fort Meade Recreation Area Regulation Sign and Map Sign at Alkali Creek Trailhead.Credit: Merv Coleman.		Rest Area at Alkali Creek Trailhead.Credit: Merv Coleman.
	African oryx, from the Kalahari Desert, introduced into New Mexico in the 1970's, roams and flourishes in the rangeland desert scrubs of southern New Mexico near the summit of San Augustin mountains. This species forages upon soaptree yucca, black grama, sideoats grama, plains bristlegrass, alkali sacaton, mesa dropseed and opunita among other grasses and forbs.Credit: Lane R. Hauser.		Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Brine filters.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Alkali

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Alkali therapy also helps decrease the development of kidney stones. (references)
		These drugs control the amount of acid or alkali in the urine, key factors in crystal formation. (references)
		Potassium supplements are rarely needed except in infants, since alkali therapy prevents the kidney from excreting potassium into the urine. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Alkali

"Alkali" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.26% of the time. "Alkali" is used about 271 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.26%	269	17,948
Noun (proper)	0.74%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	271	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Alkali

Expressions using "alkali": Alkali albumin ♦ alkali bee ♦ alkali dermatitis ♦ Alkali flat ♦ alkali grass ♦ Alkali green ♦ alkali itch ♦ alkali metal ♦ alkali metals ♦ alkali poisoning ♦ alkali removing ♦ Alkali soil ♦ alkali soils ♦ Alkali waste ♦ black alkali ♦ caustic alkali ♦ degraded alkali soil ♦ Fixed alkali ♦ mineral alkali ♦ saline alkali soil ♦ vegetable alkali ♦ volatile alkali ♦ white alkali. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "alkali": alkali-aggregate, alkali-olivine, alkali-proof, alkali-rich, alkali-silica.
	Ending with "alkali": chlor-alkali.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alkali

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
alkali	55	alkali home	4
alkali metal	28	soil alkali	4
alkali aluminum	14	alkali food	3
acid and alkali	13	alkali disease	3
alkali lake	12	alkali battery	2
alkali chlor	7	alkali metal reactivity relative	2
milk alkali syndrome	6	alkali batterien	2
alkali strong	6	alkali die	2
alkali earth metal	5	alkali reactivity silica	2
alkali environment	5	alkali honor lake story	2
alkali reaction silica	5	alkali dispenser metal	2
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Modern Translations: Alkali

Language		Translations for "alkali"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		alkali (alkaline), alkal, bazë (base, bases, basis, bedrock, bottom, evidence, foundation, grassroots, ground, groundwork, juice, radix, reason, score, seminal, substratum, substructure, ultimate). (various references)

Arabic		‏فلز قلوي, ‏مادة قلوية كيميائية, ‏قلوي كيميائي. (various references)

Bulgarian		основен (abecedarian, alkaline, basal, basic, bottom, capital, essential, fundamental, general, grade, gut, key, key note, main, organic, pivotal, polar, primal, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, tonic, ultimate, underlying), основа (accidence, base, basis, bed, foot, footing, foundation, fundamental, grounding, groundwork, joint, lye, pedestal, radix, seat, seating, sole, staff, stem, substratum, substructure, theme, underpinning, warp, warp and woof). (various references)

Chinese		鹼 (base, soda), 碱 (Alkalies, Alkalis), � � (soda). (various references)

Czech		alkálie, zásada (base, Maxim, principle, rudder, tenet, theorem). (various references)

Danish		alkali. (various references)

Dutch		alkali. (various references)

Esperanto		alkalo. (various references)

Farsi		فلزقلیاءی , ماده ای باخاصیت قلیاءی مثل سودمحرق , قلیا. (various references)

Finnish		emäs (alkaline compound, base, basic compound). (various references)

French		alcali. (various references)

German		Alkali. (various references)

Greek		αλκάλιο, αλκαλίο. (various references)

Hebrew		אלקלי (alkaline). (various references)

Hungarian		lúg (base, buck, lixivium, lye), alkália, alkáli. (various references)

Indonesian		garam alkali. (various references)

Italian		alcali, prodotto alcalino. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		アラ� 語 (a la mode, alibi, alligator, American league, Aramaic, arcadia, archaic, archaic smile, archaism, arena, aria, aristocracy, aristocrat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アルカリ . (various references)

Korean		알칼리 (Alkalies, Alkalis). (various references)

Manx		alkalaih. (various references)

Pig Latin		alkaliay

Portuguese		álcali. (various references)

Romanian		alcaliu, bazã (base, bases, basis, bottom, footing, foundation, foundation stone, ground, groundwork, measured mile, root, sole, support). (various references)

Russian		щелочь (alkalies, caustic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		alkalije, lužina, bazni (alkalescent), baza (base, basis). (various references)

Spanish		álcali. (various references)

Swedish		alkali. (various references)

Turkish		alkalik (alcali, alkaline), alkali metal, alkali (alcali), baz (alcali, base). (various references)

Ukranian		луг (alkalies, lye). (various references)

Welsh		alcali. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Alkali

Language	Period	Translations
Arabic	500-Modern	al-qaliy. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Alkali

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alkali": alkalic, alkalies, alkalified, alkalifies, alkalify, alkalifying, alkalimeter, alkalimeters, alkalimetries, alkalimetry, alkalin, alkaline, alkalinities, alkalinity, alkalinization, alkalinizations, alkalinize, alkalinized, alkalinizes, alkalinizing, alkalis, alkalise, alkalised, alkalises, alkalising, alkalize, alkalized, alkalizes, alkalizing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alkali" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aflaqi, Akawi, Akoli, alala, Alazi, alka, alkai, alkal, alkalai, Alkul, Alliali, Alpalo, Askoli, Elmali, Halkebi, Irkalla, Malkele, Malyali, Maukala, oklahi, Palfalvi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Alkali"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alkali" (pronounced a"lkulī')
3	-u l ī'	alveoli, stimuli.
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Anagrams: Alkali

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-k-l-l"
	-2 letters: ilka, kail, kill.
	-3 letters: aal, ail, ala, all, ilk, ill.
	-4 letters: aa, ai, al, ka, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-k-l-l"
	+1 letter: alkalic, alkalin, alkalis.
	+2 letters: alkalies, alkalify, alkaline, alkalise, alkalize, alkaloid, lavalike.
	+3 letters: alkalised, alkalises, alkalized, alkalizes, alkaloids, alkalosis, alkalotic, balalaika, blackmail, blacktail.
	+4 letters: alkalified, alkalifies, alkalinity, alkalinize, alkalising, alkalizing, alkaloidal, alkylating, alkylation, animallike, balalaikas, blackmails, blacktails, kilopascal.
	+5 letters: alkalifying, alkalimeter, alkalimetry, alkalinized, alkalinizes, alkylations, blackmailed, blackmailer, hallmarking, kilopascals, leukoplakia, talkatively.
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