| 单词 | animal alkali |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanimal alkali animal alkali n. now historical an alkali obtained from animal matter; spec. ammonia or ammonium carbonate; cf. volatile alkali at volatile adj. 3c. ΚΠ 1702 R. Pitt Craft Physick Expos'd 40 Nature has been very liberal in this sort of Animal Alkali. 1794 A. Adam Summary Geogr. & Hist. 105 The alkalis are divided into volatile, which fly off in the open air, as the animal alkali; and into such as are fixed and which do not evaporate, as the fossil and vegetable alkali. 1822 D. Lowry Conversat. Mineral. I. 24 Ammonia was also called animal alkali; because it is always procured from animal matter. 1901 E. B. Foote Home Cycl. (rev. ed.) iii. ii. 832 Now, what must be the effect produced on the sensitive and highly excited nerves in the sexual organs, when animal alkalies and acids are united? 1965 M. Boas Hall Robert Boyle on Nat. Philos. i. iv. 88 Boyle differentiated between volatile animal alkalies and fixed vegetable alkalies. < as lemmas |
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