Word Meanings - ALKALIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

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• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• ALKALINITY
  The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• ALKALIZATE
  Alkaline. Boyle.
• ALKALIMETRY
  The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• ALKALIZATION
  The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
• ALKALIZE
  To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• CONVERTER
  A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
• ALKALI
  One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown
• CONVERT
  To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
• ALKALIMETRIC; ALKALIMETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.
• ALKALIFIABLE
  Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.
• ALKALI FLAT
  A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.
• ALKALINE
  Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. Alkaline earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies. -- Alkaline metals, potassium, sodium,
• ALKALI SOIL
  Any one of various soils found in arid and semiarid regions, containing an unusual amount of soluble mineral salts which effloresce in the form of a powder or crust in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly
• ALKALIFY
  To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• INCONVERTIBLY
  In an inconvertible manner.
• ANTALKALI; ANTALKALINE
  Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.
• RECONVERT
  To convert again. Milton.
• INCONVERTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.