alkalescence

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alkalescence (usually uncountable, plural alkalescences)

  1. A tendency to become alkaline.
  2. The state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominate.
    • 1838, Alexander Ure, A Practical Compendium of the Materia Medica:
      Rectified wood vinegar has been successfully employed by Klaatsch, Teufel, and Schubarth, in the gelatinous softening of the stomach with a disposition to alkalescence

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alkalescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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