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Alkalic

Definition: Alkalic

Alkalic

Adjective

1. (chemistry) relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7; "alkaline soils derived from chalk or limestone".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definitions: Alkalic

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. Said of an igneous rock that contains more alkali metals than is considered average for the group of rocks to which it belongs b. Said of an igneous-rock series that contains more sodium and/or potassium than is required to form feldspar with the available silica c. Said of an igneous-rock series containing less than 51% silica when the weight percentages of CaO and of K2 O + Na2 O are equal d. Said of an igneous rock belonging to the Atlantic suite. Syn:alkali;alkaline. (references)
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Synonym: Alkalic

Synonym: alkaline (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: acidic (adj), amphoteric (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Alkalic

Specialty definitions using "alkalic": alkalic feldspar, antiperthite ♦ carbonatite, comendite ♦ fenite ♦ larvikite, laurdalite ♦ reaction series, ring dike ♦ ulrichite. (references)

Commercial Usage: Alkalic

Domain	Title
Books	Devils Tower Black Hills Alkalic Igneous Rocks and General Geology (reference) Early Paleozoic Alkalic and Calc-Alkalic Plutonism and Associated Contact Metamorphism, Central Virginia Piedmont (U.S. Geological Survey professional (reference) Geology of carbonatite-alkalic rock complexes in Ontario : Clay-Howells Alkalic Rock Complex, district of Cochrane (reference) (more book examples)
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Anagrams: Alkalic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-k-l-l"
	-1 letter: alkali, laical.
	-2 letters: alack, calla, lilac.
	-3 letters: calk, call, ilka, kail, kill, lack, laic, lick.
	-4 letters: aal, ail, ala, all, ick, ilk, ill, lac.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, al, ka, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-k-l-l"
	+2 letters: alkalotic, blackmail, blacktail.
	+3 letters: blackmails, blacktails, kilopascal.
	+4 letters: blackmailed, blackmailer, kilopascals.
	+5 letters: blackballing, blackmailers, blackmailing, karyological.
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Alternative Orthography: Alkalic

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6B 61 6C 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006B 0061 006C 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35787767787569

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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