Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being salified, or of combining with an acid to form a salt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is
salifiable .
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- adjective Capable of being
salified .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As urea is converted into ammonium carbonate in the first stage of the action of the ferment, a supply of salifiable base would at first be present, but would gradually be consumed.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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Mr. Fremy promises an examination of the question whether gold is able, in combining with oxygen, to form a salifiable base, as has been asserted.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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It requires for its favourable development air, warmth, moisture, absence of strong light, presence of a salifiable base -- viz., carbonate of lime -- the presence of certain mineral food-constituents, such as phosphates, and a certain amount of alkalinity.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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The substance which acts as this salifiable base is _lime_.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Oils, properly so called, unite with salifiable bases and form soap; whereas the essential or volatile oils,
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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Thus, for instance, all those salts which are formed by the combination of the sulphuric acid with any of the salifiable bases are called _sulphats_, and the name of the radical is added for the specific distinction of the salt; if it be potash, it will compose a _sulphat of potash_; if ammonia, _sulphat of ammonia_, &c.
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There must be an immense number of compound salts, since there is so great a variety of salifiable radicals, as well as of salifying principles.
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By no means; on the contrary, they are frequently met with in the state of compound salts; these, however, are in general not fully saturated with the salifiable bases, so that the acid predominates; and, in this state, they are called _acidulous_ salts.
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The name of each salt is composed both of that of the acid and the salifiable base; and it terminates in _at_ or _it_, according to the degree of the oxygenation of the acid.
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_salifiable bases_ or _radicals_; and the acids, _salifying principles_.
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