ALKALINE
Dictionary entry overview: What does alkaline mean?
• ALKALINE (adjective)
The adjective ALKALINE has 1 sense:
1. relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7
Familiarity information: ALKALINE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ALKALINE (adjective)
Meaning:
Relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7
Synonyms:
alkalic; alkaline
Context example:
alkaline soils derived from chalk or limestone
Similar:
alcalescent; alkalescent (tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline)
basic (of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base)
base-forming (yielding a base in aqueous solution)
saltlike (resembling a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Antonym:
acidic (being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7))
amphoteric (having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either)
