(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
(2) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(3) Rabbits eating Rabbit Chow excreted a very alkaline urine, but rats eating the same diet excreted much less alkali when expressed per kilogram of body weight.
(4) From these findings it is concluded that cardiac performance and carbohydrate metabolism are accelerated in alkali and depressed in acid perfusion, and that myocardial metabolism could be affected by pH not only secondary to the change of performance but also by itself.
(5) Electrophoresis, Sephadex chromatography, and ultrafiltration studies showed that the alkali-soluble, water-soluble cell wall antigen is comprised of lipid, polysaccharide, and protein and has a molecular weight range of 30,000 to 50,000.
(6) [Na+],[Cl-)and[alkali]were determined in the alkaline gastric juice samples (pH greater than 7.0).
(7) Plants placed in pure acid and alkali solutions were also able to neutralize the medium.
(8) TFP produced a more discrete block in the repair of alkali-labile lesions in DNA.
(9) Activation of GV by monochromatic 450-nm radiation causes two specific DNA changes in human P3 cells in culture as shown by alkaline elution techniques: single-strand breaks (i.e., alkali-labile sites plus frank strand scissions) and DNA-to-protein covalent bond crosslinks.
(10) Keratan sulphate was isolated from bovine intervertebral disc and bovine nasal septum after hydrolysis with proteinases and treatment with dilute alkali.
(11) It was necessary to avoid CsCl banding of procapsids in their preparation as this treatment altered both their pI and their sensitivity to alkali dissociation into 14S subunits.
(12) In these muscles, two kinds of mRNA for the cardiac myosin alkali light chain, identical with those in ventricular muscle, were expressed and their relative amount in each tissue was almost the same as that in ventricular muscle.
(13) The enzymes were detected and characterized by agarose gel electrophoresis of alkali-denatured digestion products.
(14) The alkali cations selectivity sequence induced by ETH1811 is Li+ (1) greater than Na+ (0.08) greater than K+ (0.02) greater than Cs+ (0.008).
(15) When the monomer was further dissociated into constituent subunits in strong alkali or at high concentrations of SDS, the CD spectrum disappeared almost completely, indicating loss of the asymmetric interactions of the chromophoric heme a with its immediate environments, consisting of the subunit assembly.
(16) Addition of alkali to the culture media results in decrease of cell GAD activity, whereas increase of enzyme level occurs only in cells growing in unbuffered media.
(17) Chain breaks as measured in alkali were also measured and found to be enhanced by the dye; the ratio of breaks per iodine loss was 0.9.
(18) Alkali hydrolysates of elastins contained a radioactive peak that was eluted between proline and leucine.
(19) Under limiting concentration conditions, BLM and NCS induce alkali-labile sites in DNA without a subsequent cleavage of the chain.
(20) Hydrolysis with mild alkali yields anhydroretinol, as it does for synthetic retinyl phosphate, with absorption maxima at 388, 368, and 346 nm.
Barilla
Definition:
(n.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
(n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.
(n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am taking part in the [Barilla] boycott and invite other MPs – at least those who are not resigning – to do the same."
(2) The interview started by asking Barilla what he thought of an appeal made on Tuesday by the speaker of the lower house of parliament, Laura Boldrini, to change the often stereotypical image of women in Italian advertisements.
(3) In response, Aurelio Mancuso, chairman of Equality Italia, accused Barilla of being deliberately provocative.
(4) Barilla responded by saying Boldrini did not understand the advertising world and women were fundamental to adverts.
(5) "Accepting the invitation of Barilla's owner to not eat his pasta, we are launching a boycott campaign against all his products," he added.
(6) Guido Barilla, who controls the fourth-generation Barilla Group family business with his two brothers, sparked outrage among activists, consumers and some politicians when he said he would not consider using a gay family to advertise Barilla pasta.
(7) The negative reaction to Barilla reflected the gradual change in public opinion in Italy, where conservative views have made way for more liberal voices.
(8) Asked what effect he thought his attitude would have on gay consumers of pasta, Barilla said: "Well, if they like our pasta and our message they will eat it; if they don't like it and they don't like what we say they will … eat another."
(9) Guido Barilla initially said people could pick another pasta brand if they didn’t like his views, but issued an apology following the furore.
(10) Within hours, the hashtag 'boicotta-barilla' was trending on Twitter.
(11) The Barilla chairman issued a statement saying that he was sorry if his remarks had caused offence and that he had only been trying to draw attention to the "central role" played by women within the family.
(12) Pasta firm Barilla boycotted over 'classic family' remarks Read more The country’s leading pasta company, Barilla, faced a boycott in 2013 when its chairman said he would never use a gay family in an advert.