alkali
alkali is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Chem.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aeration
- aerial
- aerification
- aeriform
- aerodynamics
- aerostatics
- air
- airy
- alluvial
- ammonia
- ammoniacal
- basin
- bladder
- bush
- campagna
- campestral
- campestrian
- champaign
- cloud
- common
- country
- desert
- diffuse
- effluvium
- elastic
- emit
- essence
- ether
- ethereal
- evanesce
- evaporable
- evaporate
- face
- field
- fish
- flat
- flatulence
- flatulency
- flatulent
- flatus
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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