alkali

Etymology
From, ultimately from , related to.

Noun

 * 1)  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.


 * 1)  Soluble mineral matter, other than common salt, contained in soils of natural waters.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: قَلَوِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: alkali
 * Belarusian: шчо́лач, луг
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: àlcali
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: alkálie
 * Danish: alkali
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: alkalo
 * Estonian: leelis,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ტუტე, ტუტემიწა
 * German: Alkali
 * Greek: αλκαλίο
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: alcaile
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сілті
 * Khmer: អាល់កាលី
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Latvian: sārmi
 * Lithuanian: šarmas
 * Macedonian: алкално
 * Malay:
 * Maori: waipāhua
 * Navajo: łeeyáán
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: alkali
 * Nynorsk: alkali
 * Occitan: alcalí
 * Odia:
 * Ossetian: изгӕрт
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: alkalia
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: алкалије, база
 * Roman: alkalije,
 * Slovak: alkálie
 * Slovene: alkalija
 * Sogdian: ܘܝݍܬܪܝ
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: луг
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: alcali

Etymology
From.

Noun

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Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Etymology
(see 🇨🇬).

Usage notes

 * In Finnish refers to bases in general. In English, it usually refers to a subgroup of bases as defined in the English section of this article.

Etymology
From, from , ultimately from , related to.

Noun

 * , a group of bases from group.
 * , any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

Etymology
From.

Noun

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Etymology
From.

Noun

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Etymology
or, from.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) alkali

Etymology
From.

Noun

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