Bases

Examples

• She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Bases always turn red litmus paper blue. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The suffragist who bases a claim on the so-called logic of democracy is making the poorest possible showing for a good cause. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In this form the diamond resembles two cones united at their bases, the upper one cut off a short distance from its base, the lower one having its extreme point cut off. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Most fats contain a substance of an acid nature, and are decomposed by the action of bases such as caustic soda and caustic potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• At their bases there is a short subsidiary row of obliquely transverse lamellae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The trough battery was used by Sir Humphry Davy in his series of great experiments--1806-1808--in which he isolated the metallic bases, calcium, sodium, potassium, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature--and six more shapely columns do not exist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The evil results of an accident with acid can be lessened if we know just what to do and do it quickly, but for this we must have a knowledge of bases, the second group of chemicals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In 333 B.C., pursuing this attack upon the sea bases, he marched along the coast as far as the head of the gulf now called the Gulf of Alexandretta. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Bases, like acids, are good or bad according to their use; if they come in contact with cloth, they eat or discolor it, unless neutralized by an acid. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These more active bases are generally called alkalies in distinction from the less active ones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The tribe shivering from the cold rain, huddled at the bases of great trees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But this property of bases, harmful in one way, is put to advantage in the home, where grease is removed from drainpipe and sink by the application of lye, a strong base. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The interaction of acids and bases may be observed in another way. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Different combinations of acids and bases produce different salts. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

Editor: Nell