of horses or cattle in the western USA, having the health or strength detrimentally affected by drinking alkali-contaminated water.

plural of alkali

(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic 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.

(obsolete) alkaline

plural of alkali

plural of alkali flat

A dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant alkali salts.

plural of alkali metal

(inorganic chemistry) Any of the soft, light, reactive metals of Group 1 of the periodic table; lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and francium.

An alkali salt of a sulfonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green.