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It can be used to describe a substance or solution that has a slightly basic pH level, typically in scientific or technical contexts. Example: "The soil in this area is mildly alkaline, which affects the types of plants that can thrive here."
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The declining pH does not actually make the waters acidic (they started off mildly alkaline).
Cotton and other cellulosic fibres are usually treated with heated alkaline hydrogen peroxide; wool and other animal fibres are subjected to such acidic reducing agents as gaseous sulfur dioxide or to such mildly alkaline oxidizing agents as hydrogen peroxide.
When these minerals react in excess with acids such as hydrogen chloride and carbon dioxide, they produce neutral or mildly alkaline solutions as well as a set of altered aluminosilicate and carbonate reaction products.
When they react in excess with acids such as hydrochloric acid and carbon dioxide, they produce neutral or mildly alkaline solutions plus a set of altered aluminosilicate and carbonate reaction products.
Agarase was stable over a broad pH range, particularly in mildly alkaline conditions (Fig. 3c).
The pH values of the two water samples are similar, with both being mildly alkaline.
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A transmembrane-type guanylyl cyclase, GCY-14, acts as a mildly alkaline-pH sensor molecule in ASEL.
In the mildly-alkaline oceans, the vast majority of inorganic carbon is in the form of bicarbonate, and we might expect demand to be highest during the day, when cellular biomass increases (Figure 2A).
Liver test results were normal except for hyperammonemia (ammonia, 317 μg/dL [186 μmol/L]) and mildly increased alkaline phosphatase and γ-glutamyl transpeptidase levels.
The results of chemistry panel were normal except for mildly elevated alkaline phosphatase – 157 u/l (40 130 u/l).
Apart from a mildly raised alkaline phosphatase, liver function tests (LFTs) were normal, and hepatitis B surface antigen was negative.
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