This soft base of support helps explain how the sponsors of change got themselves into this fine mess.
Typical soft bases are iodide, thiocyanate, sulfide, and triphenylphosphine; whereas hard bases include hydroxide, fluoride, and many oxyanions.
Nevertheless, a surprising amount of factual information can be coordinated on the basis of preferential reactions of hard acids with hard bases and soft acids with soft bases.
This kind of behaviour has led to a classification of Lewis acids and bases into "hard" and "soft" categories; as a rule, hard acids react preferentially with hard bases and, similarly, soft acids react with soft bases.
This soft base is collapsing through the over-extraction of groundwater, and the city has sunk as much as nine metres in some areas since the beginning of the 20th century.
To feel myself break with tiredness at their needs and still want to crawl into bed beside them and feel my own breath at the soft base of their necks..
The Irish game is mostly like baseball or softball, but the English game has what we Yanks would see as some quirks: sticks in the ground instead of soft bases, longer and fewer innings, and a vastly different scoring system.
According to the "hard-soft acid-base model," [30] Cd2+ is a soft acid, and Cl- is a soft base.
According to hard-soft acid base theory, hard acid tends to form complexes with hard bases, and soft acids tend to form complexes with soft bases.
