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Definition of Alkaline
1. Adjective. Relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7. "Alkaline soils derived from chalk or limestone"
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Similar to: Alcalescent, Alkalescent, Basic, Base-forming, Saltlike
Derivative terms: Alkali, Alkalinity
Antonyms: Acidic, Amphoteric
Definition of Alkaline
1. a. Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.
Definition of Alkaline
1. Noun. An alkaline battery. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases. ¹
3. Adjective. (chemistry) Having a pH greater than 7. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alkaline
1. containing an alkali [adj]
Medical Definition of Alkaline
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alkaline
Literary usage of Alkaline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"How are we to reconcile this with tlie results of experiments which declare the
fluids of the organ to be alkaline, save when stimulated by the presence of ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It is, however, true that the same attempt of the body plasma and protoplasm to
maintain a feebly alkaline reaction, •which in the event of over-production ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"On the Solvent Power of Strong ami Weal: Solutions of the alkaline Carbonates on
Uric Acid Calculi. By WILLIAM ROBERTS, BA, MD Lond., Physician to the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"be equivalent to the quantity of alkaline carbonates present, then only about
three-fourths of the calcium sulphate is convert«! into calcium carbonate, ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1896)
"NOTE ON THE SOLUBILITY OF BISMUTH SULPHIDE IN alkaline SULPHIDES. BY GEORGE C.
STONE. Received November 9, 1896. IN the August number of this Journal there ..."
6. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"The terms "acid" and "alkaline," applied to foods, have two significations.
First, in the ordinary meaning of the word, they represent foods which ..."