Meanings of white alkali in English

Gypsum, however, has no effect upon white alkali.

From the floor of the desert great dust-devils of white alkali arose and swirled solemnly across the wastes.

The garb of the cowboy is now one of white alkali which hangs gray in his eyebrows and moustache.

The sun had lifted over the rim of the desert, a red disc which turned the gleaming white alkali patches to rose.

On every side stretched the dazzling white alkali, with here and there a little dust devil dancing as if in mockery at their plight.

My soil is sandy loam with light traces of white alkali, although it does not seem to be detrimental to the growth thus far.

Then Esau got madder and sulked away down the valley among the little sage brush hummocks and white alkali waste land to nurse his wrath.

A small, battered-looking car, grayed and caked with white alkali dust, glided alongside, and from under its swaying and disreputable top emerged someone I knew.

"That's if we don't fall to the earth from the sky, and land up in a smash on the white alkali."