English-Spanish translations for alkali

• álcali
  De lo contrario, el sector de los cloros y álcalis, que posee las mayores existencias de mercurio de Europa, exportará gran parte de estas. Otherwise, the chlor-alkali industry, which has the largest stocks of mercury in Europe, will export huge quantities of it.
  Ya en 1990, año en que se firmó el Acuerdo PARCOM, se acordó que el sector de los cloros y álcalis debería suprimir gradualmente el uso de mercurio de aquí a 2010. As long ago as 1990, when the PARCOM Agreement was concluded, it was agreed that the chlor-alkali industry should phase out mercury by 2010.

Definition of alkali

• One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue
• Soluble mineral matter, other than common salt, contained in soils of natural waters

Related words

• alkaline
• alkalinity
• alkaliweed
• alkaligrass
• alkaliphile
• alkaliphilic
• alkalize
• alkalimeter
• alkalify