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Definition of Alkaline metal
1. Noun. Any of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium). "The hydroxides of the alkali metals are strongly alkaline"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alkaline Metal
Literary usage of Alkaline metal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"This preparation consists in dissolving separately the alkaline metal and alcohol
in liquid ammonia, and then mixing the two ammoniacal solutions. ..."
2. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1846)
"The first product, as in the common process for making prussiate, is a cyanide
of the alkaline metal present, which may be dissolved out from the mass, ..."
3. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories (1862)
"Hence, he concluded that in this mineral water eon-.e new and rare alkaline metal
was present, and he set to work to find the substance, and, ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1856)
"The first product, as in the common process for making prussiate, is a cyanide
of the alkaline metal present, which may be dissolved from out the mass, ..."
5. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1846)
"... eduction-pipe of the latter plunges beneath the surface of some water or other
liquid, convenient for oxidizing and arresting vapours of alkaline metal. ..."
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