{Alkaline reaction}, a reaction indicating alkalinity, as by the action on limits, turmeric, etc.
There he also perfected the phonograph and the alkaline battery.
Metals from mine drainage poison 20 percent of West Virginia's streams, and 13 percent are too acid from the drainage or too alkaline from overzealous treatment, according to a state report last month.
The toxin would only be activated inside the alkaline stomach of the borer, a kind of caterpillar, after it eats the treated plant tissue.
Kodak said it will maintain its Ultra Technologies plant in Newark, N.Y., to package the Supralife alkaline batteries. While it isn't clear whether there will be any write-offs, Kodak said it doesn't expect any layoffs.
The U.S. Geological Survey has scrapped plans to detonate tons of explosives on the bottom of an alkaline lake in southeastern Oregon after learning Indian artifacts might be damaged.
When Kodak entered the consumer battery business four years ago, it bragged that its Ultralife lithium battery had a 10-year shelf life and would last twice as long as its alkaline counterparts.
Kraft had said it planned to sell its profitable Duracell division, the world's leading maker of alkaline consumer batteries, to concentrate on its food business.
"The risk of blindness or permanent eye impairment is high; severe alkaline burns to the face, arms and hands also are likely," Herman said.
This uses a sodium-based alkaline scrubbing liquor to capture the SO.
In its prospectus, Duracell said it believes its main market, alkaline consumer batteries provides "significant" growth opportunities.
In its prospectus for last week's debt offering, Duracell estimated that it had a 44% market share of the U.S. alkaline battery market last year.
Along the river near Zhengzhou, where the soil was once too alkaline to produce anything but salt, irrigation has made the rice paddies the most productive in Henan.
"The water in the well area is slightly alkaline, which helped preserve everything," he said.
Instead of the heavy battery packs used by most portable computers, which must be recharged every few hours, Fujitsu's FM R-CARD runs for eight hours on two regular alkaline penlight batteries.