ALKALINE

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

alkalinity (pH values above 7)

 Context examples 

The sulfate salt of barium, an alkaline, divalent metal.

(Barium sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

Information from provider and not independently verified by NIH: Cells are positive for cell markers SSEA-3, SSEA-4, TRA 1-60, TRA 1-81, Oct-4, and alkaline phosphatase; Cells are negative for the cell marker SSEA1.

(BG01, NCI Thesaurus)

B lentus is found in soil, marine waters and sediments and is resistant to nalidixic acid and streptomycin and utilized in the biotechnology industry as a sources of alkaline proteases.

(Bacillus lentus, NCI Thesaurus)

Amifostine is dephosphorylated by alkaline phosphatase to an active free sulfhydryl (thiol) metabolite in the body.

(Amifostine Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes alkaline phosphatase, placental type protein, is involved in placental alkaline phosphatase activity.

(ALPP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The elevated activity of this agent in normal tissues results from both the relative abundance of alkaline phosphatase in normal tissues and the greater vascularity of normal tissues compared to tumor tissues.

(Amifostine, NCI Thesaurus)

A laboratory test result which indicates an increased level of alkaline phosphatase in a biological specimen.

(Blood Alkaline Phosphatase Increased, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding based on laboratory test results that indicate an increase in the level of alkaline phosphatase in a blood specimen.

(Blood Alkaline Phosphatase Increased, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

This species is motile by single polar flagellum, alpha glucosidase and alkaline phosphatase positive, catalase positive, has pink tinted colonies, and produces acid from galactose, xylose and methanol.

(Methylobacterium mesophilicum, NCI Thesaurus)

The phosphoric salt may be one of three types: strongly acid monometallic, neutral or mildly alkaline dimetallic, and strongly alkaline tri-metallic.

(Phosphate Buffer, NCI Thesaurus)