And I made that one caveat that hydrogen isn't necessarily considered an alkali metal.

We went in underneath and tapped it, and we found that it had the pH of Drano.

It is the equilibrium constant for a chemical reaction known as dissociation in the context of acid base reactions.

The whole idea behind his way of treatment was to turn my body alkaline in order to fight off the disease.

Naturally, our skin tends to be slightly acidic, but soap is alkaline and using it repeatedly encourages more alkaline loving bacteria to flock to us.

But what's interesting is that our word alkali derives from the Arabic al qali , which means ashes .

The secondary antibody is usually linked to biotin or to a reporter enzyme such as alkaline phosphatase or horseradish peroxidase.

Which is where deodorant comes in, killing or suppressing the bacteria through being mildly acidic, and usually also carrying some perfume elements as well to make us smell nicer.