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Definition of Basifying
1. basify [v] - See also: basify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basifying
Literary usage of Basifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"... basifying. basilic, m. (Bot.) basil, esp. sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) ;
basilisk. basique, a. basic. baso p hile, a. (Biol. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1833)
"basifying power of hydrogen.—The gaseous compounds of hydrogen may be divided
into several groups. 1°. Its compounds with chlorine, bromine, iodine, ..."
3. A Treatise on Ore Deposits by John Arthur Phillips (1884)
"... Mr. Wallace observes "it would appear that either lead in connection with some
basifying principle must enter, in varying proportions, as a component ..."
4. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1862)
"In his concluding remarks luj considers that from the evidence brought together
it would appear il»: either lead or some basifying principle must enter in ..."
5. Handbook of Geological Terms, Geology and Physical Geography by David Page (1865)
"An elementary acidifying and basifying substance, discovered by Berzelius in 1818
in the iron pyrites of Fahlun. In its general chemical habitudes it ..."
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