"Alkalinity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... results may follow the application of moderate dressings of chalk. The absence of the nitrifying organisms in certain soils, such as peaty and forest soils, may be thus accounted for. In such soils humic acids are present and the requisite alkalinity ...
— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman
... the skin smooth and pliant, probably on account of its alkaline character and the large amount of free nitrogen suspended in it. Its alkalinity also saponifies the fatty acids on the surface of the body, cleanses and opens up the sudorific glands, and thus assists the free absorption of the nitrogen into the system. Brisk rubbing of the skin (whilst in the water) with the hands ...
— Buxton and its Medicinal Waters • Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet |
