Meanings of alkaline earth in English

The so-called alkaline earth-metals are the elements beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium.

It must have been quiescent for some time and then the thin skin of alkaline earth formed over it.

Alkali and alkaline earth metals bind primarily to phosphate groups while transition metals also interact with the N7 of purine bases.

The heated surface was in places incrusted with alkaline earth worn into ash-like dust, or paved with pebbles blistering hot to the feet.

As far as we know, compounds 1-4 represent the first examples of cyanosilylation catalyzed by POM-based species containing alkaline earth metal cations.

The carbonates and phosphates of the alkaline earths are insoluble in water.

The alkaline earths are not volatile, and their organic salts are converted, by ignition, into carbonates.

By igniting the carbonates, their carbonic acid is expelled, and the alkaline earths are left in the caustic state.

The alkaline earths were assumed to be elements until 1807, when Sir H. Davy showed that they were oxides of various metals.

The alkaline earths are instances of this kind of reaction, also glucina oxide of cerium, tantalic and titanic acids, yttria and zirconia.

The beads of some substances, for instance those of the alkaline earths, are clear while hot; but upon cooling, are milk-white and enamelled.

In the pure state, the alkaline earths are caustic, cause red litmus paper to become blue, and are more or less soluble in water.

The use of HCl as leaching acid and the presence of alkaline earths in the matrix solution did not interfere with the chromatographic separation.

The plant receives, by means of this water, at the time of its first development, the alkalies, alkaline earths, and phosphates, necessary to its organization.