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Alkali

Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.

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Compound 76% connected

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

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salt 76% connected

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; aft…

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Glyoxaline 76% connected

A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives henc…

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Melamine 76% connected

A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, -- formerly supposed to b…

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Pyridine 76% connected

A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liqu…

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Alkaline 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.

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Alkaline 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.

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Alkalize 74% connected

To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

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Alkalize 74% connected

To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

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Basify 74% connected

To convert into a salifiable base.

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Basify 74% connected

To convert into a salifiable base.

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Base 92% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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