Meanings
nounalkalescence (usually uncountable, plural alkalescences)
plural alkalescences · alternative alkalescency
- uncountableusuallyThe state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominate.
Rectified wood vinegar has been successfully employed by Klaatsch, Teufel, and Schubarth, in the gelatinous softening of the stomach with a disposition to alkalescence
1838, Alexander Ure, A Practical Compendium of the Materia Medica
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