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-ate
unknown · 78% connection
In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Alkalescency
noun · 78% connection
A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Alkalization
noun · 78% connection
The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Ashy
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Base
noun · 78% connection
The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Basic
adjective · 78% connection
Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Bile
noun · 78% connection
A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Borax
noun · 78% connection
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Brazilin
noun · 78% connection
A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Brine
noun · 78% connection
Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mothe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Chalybeate
adjective · 78% connection
Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Cinerary
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Cineritious
adjective · 78% connection
Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Corn
verb · 78% connection
To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Ember
noun · 78% connection
A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Fluorescein
noun · 78% connection
A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Gray
superl. · 78% connection
White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
Hoecake
noun · 78% connection
A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: impregnated, consisting, alkaline, salts, extracted.
