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1. The indigenous American natives solved this problem by mixing their corn the ashes from a fire, or lime or alkali …to replace the phosphates, calcium and other nutrients that corn steals from the body to digest itself in the human body
2. For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother
3. advised that confidential treatment of the sales figure had been granted to one company (United Fruit) and that no decision had been reached with respect to the other seven (American Sumatra Tobacco, Bon Ami, Collins & Aikman, Mathieson Alkali, Mesta Machine, Sheaffer Pen, United Engineering and Foundry), as late as December 1939
4. Do not attempt neutralizing acid with alkali or vice-versa; chemical interaction will produce more heat
5. When the heads of oxen are to be operated upon, they begin by extracting the teeth, (these are reserved for the fabrication of ammoniac, as affording a greater proportion of that alkali than any of the other bones,) they then break the skull, in such manner as to preserve all the compact parts in as regular forms as possible; these pieces present a surface of 20 to 30 square inches, and are put to soak in a mixture of muriatic acid and water
6. [34] Upon the same neutralizing principle it must be supposed that any alkali would be beneficial
7. alkali in case of the bite of a Rattle-snake; and an intelligent physician of Georgia informed me, that he had applied the same stimulant in vain for the cure of the bites of poisonous snakes, but that being once stung by a Scorpion, he was instantaneously relieved by the topical use of this liquid
8. A new alkali has recently been discovered in Sweden, by M
9. The new alkali has been called lithia
10. The earth is thrown into a hopper, and the fluid obtained, passed through another of ashes, the alkali of which decomposes the earthy nitrate, and uniting with its acid, which contains chiefly nitrate of lime, turns it into nitrate of potash
11. It now remains to state, that by means of iron ignited in this apparatus, a fixed alkali may be decomposed extemporaneously
12. The alkali may be applied to the wire in small pieces in a flat hook of sheet iron
13. These experiments prove, that a free acid does not exist in snow water, but that the muriate exists in it combined with an alkali, which is most probably soda
14. The mass, when lixiviated, gave only a greenish solution, becoming colourless by nitric acid, and again greenish by an alkali; this was supposed to be owing to iron and manganese