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Unfortunately, we must also address the matter of ambiguous terminology. Alkali may mean the alkali metals, lithium, sodium, potassium, etc. It may also mean the high pH (alkaline) compounds such as sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide (lye), etc, characteristic of compounds of alkali metals.

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