Usually means: Bases that dissolve in water.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. alkali: Merriam-Webster
  2. alkali: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alkali: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alkali: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alkali: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alkali, alkali: Wordnik
  7. alkali: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alkali: Wiktionary
  9. alkali: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alkali: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alkali: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alkali: Dictionary.com
  13. alkali: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alkali: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Alkali (disambiguation), Alkali: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Alkali: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alkali: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alkali: Rhymezone
  19. alkali, alkali (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alkali: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. alkali: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. alkali: FreeDictionary.org
  23. alkali: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. alkali: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. alkali: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. alkali: Merriam-Webster

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  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alkali: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. alkali: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  5. alkali: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. alkali: Medical dictionary

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  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alkali: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. alkali: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/a.html">Alkali, "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/index.html">Alkali: Ceramic Terminology Glossary
  5. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  8. ALKALI: Power Engineering

(Note: See alkalies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
noun:  (Western US) Soluble mineral matter, other than common salt, contained in soils of natural waters.

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