black alkali
1black alkali — Alkali soil 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 (usually white) in dry weather following rains or… …
2black alkali — noun : alkali containing carbonates that dissolve organic matter and blacken soil or crusts : soil blackened by such alkali …
3Alkali 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 (usually white) in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these… …
4Black, Joseph — ▪ British scientist Introduction born April 16, 1728, Bordeaux, France died Nov. 10, 1799, Edinburgh, Scot. British chemist and physicist best known for the rediscovery of “fixed air” ( carbon dioxide), the concept of latent heat, and the… …
5white alkali — Alkali soil 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 (usually white) in dry weather following rains or… …
6Black-necked Stilt — Taxobox name = Black necked Stilt image width = 230px image caption = Adult female at Morro Creek mouth, California status = LC status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves subclassis = Neornithes infraclassis =… …
7black death — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, ambulatory plague, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard …
8Black Rock Desert — ▪ region, Nevada, United States arid region of lava beds and alkali flats composing part of the Basin and Range Province and lying in Humboldt and Pershing counties of northwestern Nevada, U.S. With an area of about 1,000 square miles… …
9black flux — noun metallurgy : a reducing flux composed of powdered carbon and alkali metal carbonate * * * Metall. a reducing flux consisting of finely divided carbon and potassium carbonate …
10black stock — noun : the dark colored material that in papermaking is discharged from a digester at the end of an alkaline cook of wood chips and contains the fiber, the alkali, and about half the weight of the wood in solution …
