Dictionary Entry
alkali
alkali is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
- 2noun
One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, 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 several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
- 3noun
any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
"bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"
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- 4noun
a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture
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